Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda denied that the US was pressuring Lithuania to reopen transit shipments of fertilisers from Belarus, BNS reported. He stressed that Belarusian fertilisers were under EU sanctions and insisted that there were no grounds to lift the sanctions. Earlier, Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys told a closed-door meeting of the parliamentary group of the ruling Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) that the US was pressuring Lithuania to allow the transit of Belarusian fertilisers through its territory, BNS reported. Budrys reportedly revealed that the US was pressuring other countries in the region as well on the issue. The US had suggested relabelling the fertilisers as US or humanitarian products. In later remarks, Budrys declined to confirm his earlier statements, while noting that there was “additional activity” from the US and that the situation was “intensifying.”
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