Russia’s Ambassador to the EU Vladimir Chizhov indicated yesterday that the European Commission could come up with a compromise solution for Kaliningrad in the near future. “The European Commission has undertaken to resolve this situation somehow, since the agreement between Russia and the EU” on transit on goods from Russia to Kaliningard “is still in force,” he said on July 1 during a Rossiya-24 TV broadcast, reported TASS. “In Lithuania there is an internal political blowback because of this whole story, there are various altercations and discussions. Let’s hope that in the near future it will be possible to reach a kind of conditionally compromise solution, the meaning of which is that the supplies of sanction goods under sanction destined directly for Kaliningrad will be excluded from the sanctions regime.”
Chizhov said that the European Commission will want to make sure that these goods will not be further exported through the seaport of Kaliningrad. “Such a task was not set before the shippers, as far as I understand, and there were no such plans,” the envoy stressed.
