VILNIUS - Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda says he intends to represent Lithuania's firm position if the country faces pressure to resume the transit of Belarusian fertilizers.
"You know, for me, values-based politics is not an empty concept or an empty phrase. Therefore, taking the actions you mention - trading values - is totally unacceptable to me," Nauseda said in an interview with BNS.
"Therefore, any such arguments that we can sell something in exchange for a more flexible position on the issue of Belarusian fertilizers are fundamentally unacceptable. And this is the policy of the European Union, by the way, because it is not Lithuania's sanctions regime that has been imposed on Belarus (...)", he added.
BNS reported at the end of last year that the US lifted sanctions on Belarusian fertilizers in exchange for the release of prisoners in Belarus.
Political observers suspect that following this decision, Washington may put pressure on Lithuania to allow fertilizer transit through the port of Klaipeda, which took place until 2022, when Lithuania, citing US sanctions and other national security considerations, stopped allowing such transit.
Eventually, the EU also imposed sanctions on fertilizers. The bloc will decide on their extension in February.
Nauseda hopes that all countries in the region will be able to agree on a firm position on the transit of fertilizers through their ports.
The president also said it would be important for him for the Seimas to revoke the conclusions of the parliamentary investigation conducted during the previous parliament, in which he was linked to the Belarusian fertilizer business, adding that such associations are painful for him.
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