Estonia may limit the import of items from the Crimea and Sevastopol

Nikolai Adashkevich. The Estonian government may decide the limits on the import of items from the Crimea and Sevastopol, as an exception from this place it will be possible to import the products to which the certificate was issued by the Government of Ukraine, said the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers.

The aim of the restrictions is to influence that local enterprises have cooperated with the Ukrainian government.

" All, of course, understand that the introduction of such limits is can be difficult. It is impossible to exclude, for example, forgery of certificates of origin of goods ", - said the head of the Estonian foreign Ministry Urmas Paet." But is important the very essence of this decision that the Union of European States does not accept the annexation of the Crimea ", - he said.

in the majority of the Crimea in Estonia import of wine, vodka and sparkling wine. Imports are presumably ten Estonian plants.

Crimea became Russian region after the last 16 March referendum in which the majority of residents voted for his entry into Russia. The head of the European Commission and the European Council then has declared, that considers the referendum on the status of the Crimea illegal and not recognize it. Elected not so long ago the head of Ukraine in the course of the event official event took office on 7 June said that the Crimea is part of Ukraine, and consequently does not have the opportunity to be a compromise. In the capital of Russia emphasized many times that a referendum meets the norms of international law and the UN Charter and the final conclusion about the return of the Crimea to the Russian Federation was adopted only by referendum.

in connection with the reunification of the Russian Federation and the Crimea USA and the European Union imposed a punishment against Residents of the Russian Federation. Approved lists of banned entities, their assets Were frozen. In case of further escalation of the situation around Ukraine, Western countries threaten Russia the introduction of sanctions against a number of industries. Moscow has stated many times that to talk to Russia in the language of sanctions inappropriate and unproductive.


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