Kazakhstan will not be a tool to circumvent US and EU sanctions against Russia, Timur Suleimenov, First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Kazakhstan, said.
In an interview with Euractiv, he called the purpose of his visit to the EU “to demonstrate to our European partners that Kazakhstan will not be a tool to circumvent sanctions against Russia by the US and the EU.”
“We will comply with the sanctions. Despite the fact that we are part of an economic union with Russia, Belarus and other countries, we are also part of the international community. Therefore, the last thing we want is for Kazakhstan to be subject to secondary US and EU sanctions,” he stressed. Suleimenov.
“We will do our best to control the sanctioned goods. We will do our best to control any investment in Kazakhstan by individuals or organizations that are under sanctions, and this is what we wanted to openly convey to the Europeans,” he said.
Rauta has developed several options for master plans development, taking into account different needs and funding opportunities, which may include projects for houses with 1-2 rooms with a separate entrance, own bathroom and kitchen.
“The concept of settlements for migrants is based on the highest speed of construction, comfortable layouts and increased energy efficiency,” said Andriy Ozeychuk, Rauta director. “The unification of production processes and ease of installation make it possible to ensure the mass construction of camps in any region of Ukraine in a few months.”
A distinctive feature of the Rauta proposal in comparison with alternative solutions for temporary residence is that houses made of sandwich panels can be effectively operated for decades and, if necessary, people will stay in such settlements for a long time with a comfortable standard of living.
If sometime the need for such settlements disappears, then the houses can be easily dismantled and moved to other places, as well as repurposed to perform new functions: recreation facilities, administrative centers, outpatient clinics, small commercial or office buildings, etc.
You can see the refugee houses layouts and possible options for master plans at the link.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba denied rumors that Germany and France are putting pressure on Ukraine to make concessions in negotiations with the Russian Federation.
“Those countries that you mentioned are our partners, they help us a lot, especially the UK, and we don’t feel any pressure in the negotiation process from their side, we feel support and we have very close interaction with these governments,” Kuleba said at the briefing in Warsaw on Friday.
So Kuleba responded to a journalist’s request to comment on media reports that France and Germany are putting pressure on Ukraine to make concessions to the Russian Federation in the negotiations.
The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stressed that even before the start of the war, it was inappropriate to say that Ukraine could be put under pressure.
“We have shown in a number of situations that Ukraine does not succumb to any pressure, you can only speak with us on an equal footing and you can never speak down. And after 36 days of war, I assure you that no one in Europe or overseas will even dare to attack President Zelensky or to Ukraine for any reason,” Kuleba said.
The Motor (Transport) Insurance Bureau of Ukraine (MTIBU) fulfills its international obligations and functions in war conditions.
“We are all facing the tragic and unique situation of the war initiated by the Russian Federation in Ukraine: we now have one National Bureau (MTIBU), which is a member of the board of the Green Card Bureau, is under fire, but still continues to work. It seems fantastic and almost unbelievable, but yes – it’s true: under all these circumstances, cooperation with MTIBU continues, despite the dramatic reality,” said Sandra Schwartz, President of the Board of the Green Card Bureau, in an exclusive interview with the analytical publication XPrimm.
According to her, according to MTIBU, the war in Ukraine caused a huge flow of refugees who left the country, many of them travel by car. Thus, while promoting a general consolidation of efforts to help them cope with the tragedy of war and seek asylum, European insurers are dealing with a very specific technical problem: crashes involving cars with Ukrainian license plates in the context of the fact that in an extreme situation, many of of them left for European countries without concluding an agreement on compulsory international insurance “Green Card”.
Answering a question about the number of Ukrainian cars that are now moving on European roads, Schwartz noted that, despite the fact that the Council of Bureaux is in constant contact with the authorities of countries that have a direct border with Ukraine, and the total number of refugees is known, there is a significant shortage information on the number of cars on Ukrainian license plates that left the country after the start of Russian military aggression.
“So we don’t have aggregated hard data yet, but we are sure that there are a huge number of Ukrainian-registered cars that not only cross the Ukrainian border to leave, but also drive further across Europe, where people hope to find shelter. And many of these cars do not have proper insurance protection,” she stated.
Schwartz stressed that such a situation is not legitimate, but has become generally accepted due to its urgency, since checking whether people have proper insurance is much less important than giving them access to a shelter as soon as possible. However, of course, there is a need to solve it.
Schwartz explained that there are several national initiatives to provide Ukrainians with free or cheap Green Card insurance or to cover temporary losses caused by uninsured Ukrainian cars.
“Also, a discussion has already begun whether this should be a common pan-European solution and how such a mechanism can work,” said the President of the Council of Bureaux.
She explained that the Council of Bureaux is in close contact with Insurance Europe (Federation of Insurers and Reinsurers, which unites 39 European insurance associations) on this issue in order to decide on the solution that will best resolve the current situation.
Due to the fact that the Ukrainian Bureau “Green Card” and insurers who are full members of the MTIBU are actively working, Ukrainian drivers can remotely renew an expired policy or receive a new one in digital format (as a pdf file). In the current situation, during verification, the document will be accepted in digital format, despite the fact that this is inconsistent with the UNECE recommendations, according to which the Green Card is a valid document only if it is provided in paper form.
Finally, the war in Ukraine also has a significant impact on cooperation with the Russian and Belarusian Green Card Bureaus.
“The first question is how and how it is still possible under the sanctions regime to make sure that the Russian Bureau is able to fulfill its obligations as a member of the Council of Bureaux. Of course, most of the questions at the moment are related to financial aspects, money transfers, etc.
We, as a system, must decide, taking into account reputational aspects, whether it is appropriate to have a Russian National Bureau among the members of the Bureau.According to the rules of the Green Card system, the only reason for suspending the membership of a particular national bureau is that it violates our rules.Thus , we must, first of all, analyze whether this is true or not,” Schwartz explained.
The weather with precipitation in Ukraine in the next 2 days will be determined by the atmospheric fronts of the cyclone, which will move from the southwest to the northeast of the country, and cold air of Arctic origin will spread behind the cyclone from the north in Ukraine, Ukrhydrometeorological center reports.
On Saturday, April 2, moderate, sometimes heavy precipitation in the form of rain and sleet is expected in the western and northern regions of Ukraine; temperature at night and day 5-10 warm, in the north-west of the country 0-5 warm.
In the rest of the territory, light and moderate rains, in the daytime in places with thunderstorms, in the Sea of \u200b\u200bAzov and Crimea without significant precipitation; temperature at night 7-12° warm, daytime 14-19° warm, in the east, south-east of the country up to 23°.
South wind, in the west and north of the country, northeast, 7-12 m/s, in the southern, eastern, most central regions gusts of 15-20 m/s.
Rain in Kyiv on April 2. Wind northeast, 7-12 m/s. The temperature at night and day is 6-8°C.
According to the Central Geophysical Observatory named after Boris Sreznevsky, for the entire period of meteorological observations in Kyiv on the afternoon of April 2, the highest temperature was recorded at around 23.1 degrees of heat in 2017, and the lowest at night – at around 8.8 degrees of frost in 1931 year.
On Sunday, April 3, sleet is expected in the western, northern, Vinnitsa and Cherkassy regions, rain in Transcarpathia, heavy snow in some places in the Carpathians at night. In some places icy, wet snow sticking. The temperature at night and in the daytime is from 2° below zero to 3° below zero (0-5° below zero in the Carpathians).
In the rest of the territory, rain and sleet are expected, in the southern and central regions during the day heavy precipitation in places, the temperature at night and in the daytime is 3-8°C, in the east and south-east of the country during the day 8-13°C.
Wind northwest, 5-10 m/s; in the south and east of the country southwestern western, 7-12 m/s, daytime gusts 15-20 m/s.
In Kyiv on April 3, sleet, sleet in places, wet snow sticking. Wind northwest, 5-10 m/s. The temperature at night and day is 0-2°C.
The value of shares of eight out of nine Ukrainian agricultural holdings, whose shares are listed on foreign exchanges, fell sharply on February 24 due to the Russian military invasion of Ukraine, but partially recovered during March, reaching a maximum value for five groups of companies on March 29, during the Ukrainian-Russian negotiations in Istanbul.
Corresponding trends for securities of agricultural groups from Ukraine can be traced in the analysis of data from the Warsaw and London stock exchanges.
Thus, for the period February 23 – March 31, the price of shares of the Astarta agricultural holding on March 29 “bounced” to PLN28.5 compared to the pre-war PLN29.0 on March 23 (1.7% less). Similarly, on March 29, peak values during the war with the Russian Federation reached the price of shares of IMK – PLN21.0 (February 23 – PLN22.8, -7.8%), “Agroton” – PLN6.0 (PLN6.66, -10%) , Kernel – PLN36.5 (PLN46.4, -21.3%), Agroliga – PLN25.6 (PLN37.8, -47.6%).
At the same time, on March 29, the value of the securities of the KSG Agro group of companies even exceeded the pre-war figures, reaching PLN2.92, which is 5% more than on February 23, PLN2.78.
The most highly quoted shares of the agricultural holding MHP were $5.26 (PLN21.98) on March 3, which is -11% less than the pre-war $5.96 (PLN24.91). Milkiland reached a similar peak on March 18 – PLN1.22 against PLN1.45 (-15.8%), and Ovostar – on March 23, PLN59 against PLN58 (+1.6%).
In turn, the largest drop since the beginning of the invasion of the aggressor country of the Russian Federation, the shares of MHP agricultural holding reached $ 3.3 (PLN 13.79, -80%) on March 24, Kernel – on March 8 (PLN 18.8, a fall of 2.5 times ), Agroliga on March 3 (PLN16.5, a drop of 2.3 times), Astarta on March 2 (PLN14.2, a drop of 2 times), IMC on March 7 (PLN12.6, a drop of 1 .8 times), KSG Agro on March 24 (PLN 1.55, a drop of 1.8 times), Agroton on February 24 (PLN 4.0, -40%), Milkiland on February 24 (PLN 0.96 , a third drop), Ovostara on March 21 (PLN54.5, -7.6%).
As of 17:00 March 31, Kernel shares are valued at PLN33.0, MHP – $4.2 (PLN18.39), Astarta – PLN26.15, IMC – PLN20.5, KSG Agro – PLN2.68, Ovostar – PLN49.6, Milkiland – PLN1.22, Agroliga – PLN23.7, Agroton – PLN5.78
