LITHUANIA‘S FOREIGN MINISTER URGES RUSSIA TO STOP DISCRIMINATING LITHUANIAN ROAD CARRIERS
On 11 August, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Vygaudas Ušackas called in Ambassador of the Russian Federation Vladimir Chkhikvadze and requested him to provide explanations concerning the discriminatory measures that are applied to the Lithuanian road carriers.
The Minister stressed that the situation on the Latvian-Russian border is intolerable.
“The discrimination of Lithuanian road carriers does not correspond to the constructive and pragmatic relations between Lithuania and Russia”, Minister V.Ušackas said.
The Minister urged the Russian Federation to take immediate actions for the resolution of the situation and to stop discriminating the road carriers from the Republic of Lithuania.
Today, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister also signed a letter to the European Commission with a request to guarantee equal conditions for competition of the European Union road carriers and to assure that road carriers are not discriminated on national basis.
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