Lithuania is ready to carry financial losses due to sanctions against Belarus and Russia. According to the Minister of Economy of the Republic of Aushrine Armonail, human rights are fundamental value and should be higher than the material benefit.
"My value opinion is temporary economic difficulties justified when protecting human rights, freedom and common fundamental eternal values," she said in a conversation with BNS. - Any sanctions, be it Belarus, Russia or Iran, any country in the world - have economic consequences. But they are not introduced in vain: In order for us to protect human rights. "
Rest at your own expense
The last victim of the EU sanctions in Lithuania was located in the local Druskininka Sanatorium Belorus, which is located in the administration of the Presidential Administration of Belarus. In late December, the local SWEDBANK branch froze the organization's accounts due to sanctions. As a result, 393 employees, 350 of which are citizens of Lithuania, could not get a salary.
"This is an absurdity, this is a deplorable situation that ordinary workers suffer because of some international political affairs," said the mayor of Druskininkai Richardas Malniskas. - Such measures to do is something incompatible with common sense. "
However, the adviser to the leader of the Belarusian opposition Svetlana Tikhanovskaya Franak Vyazorka is confident that such actions are justified.
"This organization was in the constitutional list, and the blocking of accounts is the result of Lukashenko's mafia state structure," he said.
The legal collision around wages to employees of the Belorus sanatorium is now trying to resolve the territory of the country. Next week, Parliament intends to urgently adopt amendments to the laws that will allow special payments to employees.
Previously, the Lithuanian Klaipeda port opposed the new sanctions against the largest Belarusian companies that support Lukashenko regime. According to the head of the port of Algis Latakas, the economic war with Belarus threatens Lithuania with great losses. In turn, the Belarusian authorities threaten to stop the export of oil through the Klaipeda port and translate goods to Russian ports.