Russia will pay for Belarusian sanctions against Lithuania – with preferential tariffs
The reorientation of Belarusian freight traffic from Lithuanian Klaipeda to Russian Ust-Luga will be beneficial, since Russia will reduce its railway tariffs.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko announced this to journalists today, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“We will simply try to solve this problem economically. They say it will be more expensive for Belarus. If, like now, there is a railway and a port - Ust-Luga near Leningrad and Klaipeda - of course, it will be a little disadvantageous for us. But we can agree with the Russians on tariffs, and they will still benefit from the volume of transshipment of our millions of tons of cargo, because the Baltic ports are not overloaded. We can boot up in Novorossiysk. And we can work through Ukraine,” Lukashenko said.
At the same time, he made very derogatory remarks about the three Baltic republics, which imposed personal sanctions against him.
“They were given the command “front”, and they blathered from under the fence. I don’t want Belarus to turn out like this. But this will turn out to be the case. If powerful, three times larger Ukraine, the richest pearl of the Soviet Union, is in such a state now. Did things get better in Ukraine after they headed to the West? No! And it will be even worse for Belarusians.
None of the great leaders who govern these countries today will stop me. And let them be more careful with Belarus. The peoples of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, well, who remained there - there are one and a half to two million left in Lithuania, but there were four and a half. Let them explain to their people how they reformed the country so much that they have less than half the population left of what they had in Soviet times. Therefore, let them attack Lukashenko and Belarus more carefully, because they will get so much in the teeth from their people that there will be no tooth left,” Lukashenko said.
Russia will pay for Belarusian sanctions against Lithuania with preferential tariffs.