Rogozin recalled that Russia had exchanged transit through Lithuania to Kaliningrad.
Since June 18, the transit of some cargoes to the Kaliningrad region has been stopped through Lithuania. According to Governor Anton Alikhanov, from 20 to 40 percent of the transported goods fell under the definition.
“It building materials, cement, metals, a range of other projects for construction and manufacturing“, Alikhanov noted the day before.
Today, he consumes the inhabitants of the region does not panic and does not buy goods from resellers. In essence, the authorities of the region were preparing for such “nasty things of their neighbors” and have already gathered and put a new ferry into growth. Also, together with the Ministry of Transport, another dry cargo ship was relocated from other seas, which currently runs along the Ust-Luga-Baltiysky line.
“Ferry complex of the Kaliningrad region” cope with the specified cargo due to the restriction of transit through Lithuania, we will transport everything“, – is in the area of responsibility of the region.
At the same time, Anton Alikhanov noted that “Lithuania’s ban on the transit border of goods by rail from the regions of the Russian Federation to the Kaliningrad region is illegal and is a gross violation.” The Governor noted that this could have implications both for Lithuania and for the application.
He noted in his Telegram channel that if the restrictions are not released, then inRegional authorities will propose to take retaliatory measures. According to Alikhanov, these retaliatory measures have affected the transport complex of the Baltic states.
In turn, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, recalled that “an integral part of the package of EU-RF-Lithuania decisions of 2002-2003 on guaranteed transit of Russian cargo and, of course, citizens of the Russian Federation to / from the Kaliningrad region was counter obligation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation to ratify the State Border Treaty with the Republic of Lithuania“.
Rogozin wrote on his Telegram channel on Friday that at that time he met the State Duma Committee on Affairs and was the special representative of the President of Russia at the talks.
“If a Brussels and Vilnius are proactively and treacherously destroying the signed package of postponing the agreements on the Kaliningrad transit, which entered into force on July 1, 2003“, then in application one should understand the consequences of one’s suicidal decision for the legitimacy of one’s own eastern border,” Dmitry Rogozin stressed.
Lithuania has established restrictions on transit sanctions, which were signed as an annex against Russia. Despite the ambiguity, and there is an objection here, if we are talking about cargo that is shipped from the regions to the Russian region.