A new trade war has broken out! Russia has taken revenge on oil for the words of the president, Kazakhstan has stopped coal – Topky.sk

Russia officially justified the suspension of Kazakh oil transit by finding a mine and torpedoes from the Second World War. They were to be found near the terminal where the oil pipeline from Kazakhstan ends. Kazakhstan’s response did not take long. The local authorities stopped 1,700 wagons with Russian coal on their territory. When the European Union (EU) banned the import of Russian coal, Kazakhstan blocked its transit. Although the EU decision has been in force since August, Russia’s neighbors hurried and decided to obey it earlier, writes the Belarusian opposition daily Nasha Niva. The whole dispute was started by statements made by Kazakh President Kasyma-Zhomart Tokajev at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum on Friday, in which he announced in the presence of Vladimir Putin that Kazakhstan would not recognize the People’s Republic of Donetsk and Luhansk. Tokayev said that #Kazakhstan doesn’t recognize “#LPR” and “#DPR” and called them quasi-state territoriesHe noted that international law based on #UN Charter and two fundamental principles- right of nations to self-determination and territorial integrity, came into conflict.
1/2 pic.twitter.com/ksJotg9laC – NEXTA (@nexta_tv) June 17, 2022 “I reckon that if the right of nations to self-determination actually materialized, more than 500 or 600 states would emerge on Earth. And, of course, chaos will break out. For this reason, we do not recognize Taiwan, nor Kosovo, nor South Ossetia or Abkhazia. And first, this principle will also apply to quasi-state territories, which, in our opinion, are Luhansk and Donetsk, “Tokajev said in St. Petersburg. But that was not all for Tokaj. He also decided to reject the Russian Order of Alexander Nevsky, to whom the Russians were planning to honor him in St. Petersburg. According to the Russian daily Moskovsky Komsomol, the Kazakh authorities denied that they would order 1,700 wagons with Russian coal. Everything is going normally and even the planned work in Novorossiysk will not affect Kazakh oil exports in any way.