Latvia “burnt” one more lobbyist of Belarus

• 21.03.2012, 2:13

Baltic mass media have revealed one more defender of Lukashenka’s regime from the EU sanctions.

In addition to predicting an economical collapse to Latvia in case economic sanctions against Minsk are expanded, he is in fact a government worker: President of the Latvian state railway concern Latvijas Dzelzcels, Ugis Magonis.

As DELFI writes, Ugis Magonis claims that in case Belarus changes transit corridors after expansion of sanctions against Belarus, it would be next to impossible to restore the traffic flow even under the most favourable conditions.

The head of the transport concern forecasts that such a possible move of the Belarusian side would cause twofold decrease of the traffic flow, and in its turn that would cause mass dismissals of Latvijas Dzelzcels workers and reduction in salary.

In 2011 33.8 mln tons of goods were transported in the direction Latvia-Belarus (including the transit through Belarus), or 57% of the goods transported by Latvijas Dzelzcels.