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Prime Minister of Lithuania: We must continue to supply Ukraine with lethal weapons
Saulius Skvernelis, the Prime Minister of Lithuania, stated during the Kyiv Security Forum that he is convinced of the necessity to continue supplying lethal weapons for Ukraine’s defensive purposes.
Skvernelis stated: “We must continue to help Ukraine with lethal weapons—but not for the purpose to show that we want to encourage a war. We want to defend ourselves, and having lethal weapons means that we can save the lives of the military. I emphasize, this is not the encouragement of military …
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Ukraine and Moldova sign an agreement on air traffic
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine signed an agreement on air traffic with the government of Moldova, Ukraine Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman announced on Twitter. According to Groysman, it is “a protocol that will improve transport and automobile cooperation."
Groysman also said that a Memorandum on the synchronization of the work of energy systems with the energy system of Europe was signed. Recently, Ukraine also completed the ratification of the treaty with Moldova on joint border …
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Finland issues permission for construction of Nord Stream-2
The Regional Administrative Department of South Finland has issued permission for construction of the Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline in the exclusive economic zone of the country, Interfax reports.
Permission was issued for the laying of a new 374-kilometer pipeline in the exclusive economic zone, 20 meters from the previously laid Nord Stream 1 pipe.
Finland’s Ministry of Economy issued a permit for construction of the Nord Stream-2 on April 5.
Germany was the first country to issue a full …
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Ukraine ratifies the agreement on joint border control with Moldova
On Thursday, April 12, President Petro Poroshenko signed a law ratifying the intergovernmental agreement on joint border control between Ukraine and Moldova from October 6, 2017. Poroshenko signed the documents during his meeting with the Prime Minister of Moldova, Pavel Filip, who was in Kyiv for a state visit, according to the Ukrainian President’s website. The first joint control procedures were introduced in June last year at the “Kuchurgan-Pervomaysk” border crossing point.
During the …
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Bank handling transactions between Russia and Syria placed under US sanctions
Last week, the bank Russian Finance Corporation (RFC) fell under US sanctions. It was the primary bank for transactions between Syria and Russia, The Bell news outlet writes.
Officially the US government stated that RFC was included on the sanctions list because it belongs to Rosoboronexport, which has shipped billions of dollars of weapons to Syria in the last decade, and has also given material, financial and technological support to the country’s government.
One of The Bell’s sources out …