{"id":46900,"date":"2023-05-18T22:37:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T19:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/api.pozirk.online\/articles\/prime-minister-tells-seimas-how-sanctions-on-belarus-and-russia-affect-lithuania\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:29:13","slug":"prime-minister-tells-seimas-how-sanctions-on-belarus-and-russia-affect-lithuania","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/pozirk.online\/en\/news\/46900\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime minister tells Seimas how sanctions on Belarus and Russia affect Lithuania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>May 18, <span>BPN.<\/span><\/b> Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida \u0160imonyt\u0117 has briefed the parliament on the government\u2019s activities in 2022, highlighting the challenge of orienting the main enterprises of the \u201cformer transport corridor between East and West\u201d towards new markets due to sanctions against Belarus and Russia. <\/p>\n<p> The companies include the Port of Klaip\u0117da and Lithuanian Railways, <span>BNS<\/span> reported.<\/p>\n<p> \u0160imonyt\u0117 warned of a possible economic slowdown in 2023 because of geopolitical and global factors. <\/p>\n<p> \u201cBecause of the difficult to predict and unstable neighborhood, we will be and are already paying an additional price for the poisoned business climate,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p> Lithuania cited national security interests and stopped transporting potash fertilizers produced by Bie\u0142aru\u015bkalij, a Belarusian company sanctioned by the United States, in early 2022. Potash was a major export product that was shipped by rail through Lithuania and then via its seaport of Klaip\u0117da.<\/p>\n<p>Russia accounted for 10.7 percent of Lithuania\u2019s exports and 12.1 percent of imports in 2021, prior to the war in Ukraine and the West\u2019s economic retaliation against Moscow that followed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 18, BPN. Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida \u0160imonyt\u0117 has briefed the parliament on the government\u2019s activities in 2022, highlighting the challenge of orienting the main enterprises of the \u201cformer transport corridor between East and West\u201d towards new markets due to sanctions against Belarus and Russia. 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