/ world at the moment information/ The President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, indicated the reason for the air pollution of the Druzhba pipeline and estimated the harm at lots of of hundreds of thousands of {dollars}. He admired the emphatic means through which Vladimir Putin responded to the issue, calling it “nicely completed.” However how have the nations managed to take care of the tough scenario and can they be capable to agree on the fee of compensations with out turning to worldwide courts?
On Saturday, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko promised to current the precise quantity of harm brought on by the move of Russian contaminated oil via the Druzhba pipeline. The precise information might be identified after the audit of the oil refineries, specifically these in Mozyr and Novopolotsk. However now he’s assured that the determine might be “very excessive”.
“It is an enormous detriment to the pipeline, to the pipeline tools itself and to the refinery. The 2 refineries in Mozyr and Novopolotsk are contaminated. And this can be a large harm precipitated to the nation,” Lukashenko stated.
In keeping with him, the Novopolotsk website is working at half, the Mozyr website at a 3rd of its capability. “We misplaced some huge cash. These are lots of of hundreds of thousands of {dollars}”, the Belarusian chief complained, including that his nation didn’t cease gas provides for a very long time, even after the contaminated oil handed via the pipes “in order to not trigger extra harm to Russia”.
In keeping with BelTA, he calls Russian “sloppiness” one of many causes for the air pollution.
“Weak spot and promiscuity on the territory of Russia – and the large pipe was contaminated with toxic oil. In a single week, even the pipe via which the oil was pumped, based on specialists, was corroded by as a lot as 4-5 millimeters,” stated the President of Belarus.
On the similar time, he emphasised that Minsk is not going to speculate on the issue and join the difficulty of compensation with the settlement of the scenario surrounding the tax maneuver within the Russian Federation and its penalties for the republic.
“In our refineries, they inform me, there may be already clear oil flowing. We’ve pumped a few of the contaminated oil into our warehouses,” the president stated, including that “the epic for Belarus, so far as I perceive, is coming to an finish.”
The likelihood that there may very well be no connection between the Druzhba pipeline scenario and Russia’s tax maneuver was additionally talked about earlier by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. This maneuver runs from 2019 to 2024. Belarusian refineries now obtain duty-free oil from Russia. Nonetheless, Moscow will steadily restore export duties (30%). Lukashenko calls this maneuver an try to interrupt the mixing between the nations, for the reason that provide of uncooked supplies at world costs contradicts the agreements.
Consequently, Russian refineries might be in a greater scenario, because the Russian finances will compensate them for the losses. Minsk truly desires Russia to compensate the losses from its finances for Belarusian refineries as nicely.
Lukashenko now expects that Moscow is not going to dispute the harm from the inflow of low-quality oil and the case is not going to attain the courtrooms. “What? Sue the Russians on this? I feel we are going to discover out for ourselves who owes whom,” assures Lukashenko.
He notes that Russian President Vladimir Putin has acknowledged the harm in public statements. “Putin understands that the harm should be compensated. He himself says that these are large losses for Russia, a lack of picture”, Lukashenko added.
On the similar time, he famous the willpower of the Russian chief to grasp the causes of the oil air pollution. “We spoke in Beijing with Putin that the perpetrators should be answered. And he did a beautiful job, he reacted very strongly to this, as by no means earlier than … He questioned the federal government and ministers, instructed legislation enforcement companies and even turned to the FSB, which occurs hardly ever. And I need to say that FSB director Alexander Bortnikov and his colleagues rapidly discovered these answerable for this,” Lukashenko stated.
As reported on Saturday, the Mozer Refinery started processing high-quality oil and rising its manufacturing capability to the optimum stage, however for now the oil pumped in entrance of the Surgut-Polotsk pipeline “shouldn’t be sufficient for the optimum load of the plant.” As well as, Gomeltransneft “Druzhba” firm has notified Transneft of its readiness to extend the amount of oil transit. Druzhba supplies oil provides to Belarusian refineries and the transit of oil to Europe via Belarus in two instructions – via Poland and Ukraine.
In mid-April, Belarus complained of a sudden deterioration within the high quality of Druzhba oil. The content material of organochlorine compounds within the uncooked supplies exceeded ten instances the restrict values. Minsk is pressured to cease receiving oil. In addition to Ukraine and Poland. On Saturday, Kyiv introduced the resumption of transit. In keeping with the outcomes of the investigation carried out by Russia, it was discovered that the air pollution was intentional. This week, the Samara District Court docket arrested 4 defendants on this prison case.
Belarusian political scientist Alexey Dzermant heard in Lukashenko’s statements hope for a fast finish to the tough scenario, however for that the true extent of the harm should be understood and the query ” compensate for all this” should be resolved. He doesn’t even think about the scenario with the choice of the matter via a court docket. “Both it will likely be direct compensation or it will likely be with free oil.” For now, we will solely guess at these potentialities, stated Dzermant.
In keeping with him, within the public sphere, the decision of a tough scenario appears fairly first rate, though this state of emergency has significantly broken the financial system of each nations and “particularly the picture of Russia in Western Europe, the place this oil is provided.”
Nonetheless, based on him, the choice to withdraw the Russian ambassador to Belarus, Mikhail Babich, may very well be associated exactly to the truth that he, as a particular consultant of Vladimir Putin, didn’t react rapidly sufficient to the scenario. “Throughout this incident, the ambassador didn’t make any statements,” the knowledgeable remembers.
However normally, based on the political scientist, Russia and Belarus have handled the problem “calmly and with out exaltation”. “Within the info area of Belarus there have been no info innuendos, hysteria. Almost certainly, there was an understanding that it’s essential to act in a relaxed method and to not elevate pointless info waves, that are already an excessive amount of, to evaluate the harm in a working order and to seek out out who’s guilty”, concludes Dzermant.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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