In this situation, we need to speak about the companies in neighboring countries that have intensions to take it over because there is no sanction regime that would ban them from doing so, based on hour knowledge. The countries don't reveal their positions yet, but it seems that they will need to respond and state what they think about it in the long term, Lansbergis told the public broadcaster LRT on Sunday.
The foreign minister said that he was assured by the United States that it is talking to countries and our neighbor that could also look for ways to prevent funding sources for the Lukashenko regime. Several private Latvian freight carriers have received inquiries from Belarusian fertilizer producer Belaruskali about the possibility of its cargo being transported via Latvia's territory to be handled in Latvia's ports.
According to those carriers, Latvia, like Lithuania, sticks to international sanctions and does not want to violate them.
The Lithuanian government is looking into banning Belaruskali transit through the country's territory.
Belaruskali product shipments via Lithuania did not stop after US sanctions against it came into force on December 8, because the Belarusian company had made an advance payment to LTG, enough to cover the cost of rail services for several months.
The government announced after the sanctions had already taken effect that it was trying to terminate the state railway company's contract with Belaruskali, even though it said the US sanctions do not directly apply to the transit of fertilizers through Lithuania.