Old Town in TallinnHELSINKI Feb 3The Estonian government approved the proposal of Foreign Minister Eva-Maria Liimets to impose state sanctions on the transit of petroleum products from Belarus through the territory of the republic, the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers said on Thursday. «State sanctions apply to petroleum products produced on the basis of mineral oils of the commodity group under the customs code 2707, which is not subject to sanctions imposed by the European Union, and the transit of which has so far been possible through Estonia,» the message says. >The Baltics are asking Russia to save them from the cold As Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said, today's government decision to impose additional sanctions on oil products from Belarus in addition to EU sanctions will fill a large gap. «We also draw attention to this gap at the international level. Estonia proposes to impose sanctions on this group of goods throughout the EU, and I will raise this issue at tomorrow's meeting of the Prime Ministers of the Baltic States,» Kallas said. Estonian Eva-Maria Liimets also said that sanctions against oil transit should also be introduced at the EU level. West»If we look at the transit flow through Estonia, it is unfortunate that this is supported by the Belarusian regime. To prevent this flow from moving, I proposed to introduce additional sanctions from Estonia. The proposal to impose sanctions will also be made at the EU level,» Liimets said earlier. Eesti Päevaleh said that Belarus, which fell under EU sanctions, is using Estonia to export record large volumes of its oil products. Thus, according to the newspaper, last year Estonia imported Belarusian oil products almost three times more than a year earlier.
