Moscow intends to use all the tools provided by international law to protect their interests during the consideration of a claim of Ukraine to the Russian Federation for the transit of Ukrainian goods through Russian territory to third countries. This was stated press Secretary of Russian President Dmitry Peskov, reports “RIA Novosti”.
“Under international law there are methods and ways to protect the interests of the Russian Federation, which will be applied in this case, exactly as in other similar”, — said Peskov.
“Here’s some possible reasoning is hardly relevant,” he added, answering the question about possible consequences for the Russian Federation in connection with the claim of Ukraine to the WTO about the limitations of transit through Russia.
As reported, on February 9 Ukraine filed a lawsuit to the world trade organization against Russia in connection with the restriction of the transit of Ukrainian goods through Russian territory to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
We will remind, the President of Russia Vladimir Putin the decree from January 1, 2016 was established that the international transit road and rail transport of cargoes from Ukraine to Kazakhstan across Russian territory are carried out only from the territory of Belarus “, subject to the application to cargo spaces (compartments) of vehicles and railway rolling stock, premises, containers and other places where are or can be the goods, means of identification (seals), including operating on the basis of technology global navigation satellite system GLONASS, as well as the presence of drivers of vehicles engaged in road transport account coupons”.
Then on 1 July, Putin has supplemented his decree new regulations, extending its effect not only on Kazakhstan but also in Kyrgyzstan. In addition, introduced a temporary ban on road and rail transport of goods in respect of which in the Russian Federation are applied rates of import customs duties established by the common customs tariff of the EAEU different from zero, and of the goods included in the list of agricultural products, raw materials and food, approved by the government of the Russian Federation.
According to the document, the government of the Russian Federation in the case of the appeal to him of the governments of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan have the right to allow road and rail traffic above goods subject to the order of these operations.
