Officials in Georgia and Kazakhstan said late this week that they would adhere to the sanctions imposed on the aggressor country Russia over the war in Ukraine.

Sanctions against Russia

If this happens, then Russian enterprises will not be able to transport their products subject to restrictions through these countries. This is reported by the railway magazine Railway Supply, citing foreign media.

In particular, Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili said on CNN on March 31 that the state had joined all the financial sanctions launched by the West against the Russian Federation.

Earlier, the Georgian government refused to impose restrictions on the aggressor country after the start of Russia’s large-scale war against Ukraine on February 24. In addition, trade relations between the countries have intensified.

However, according to Ukrayinska Pravda, the President of Georgia does not have the authority to announce sanctions, because according to the Constitution, the Prime Minister leads the country.

In addition, Timur Suleimenov, First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Kazakhstan, said that Kazakhstan will not be a tool to circumvent US and EU sanctions imposed on Russia due to the war in Ukraine. “We will comply with the sanctions. Although we are part of an economic union with Russia, Belarus and other countries, we are also part of the international community,” he said April 1. “Therefore, the last thing we want is for secondary US and EU sanctions to be applied to Kazakhstan.”

He said that Kazakhstan would do everything possible to control the sanctioned goods, as well as “any investment in Kazakhstan by persons or entities under sanctions.”

Russia is the world leader in sanctions. As of April 1, 8 064 restrictive measures have been introduced against individuals and companies in the aggressor country, Rail.insider reports.

The accession of Georgia and Kazakhstan to the sanctions is important in the sense that these countries are one of the alternative ways of transporting sanctioned goods, bypassing Ukraine and the EU countries.

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