“Norway has already made a significant contribution to support Ukraine.” Oslo responded to Morawiecki

Eivind Vad Petersson, State Secretary of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs answered Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki’s proposal to share the proceeds from Norway’s oil and gas sales. The newspaper writes about it Aftenposten.

Presented in Warsaw…

Morawiecki said the day before that Norway was “making huge profits from oil and gas exports” and should Share your income.

According to him, he is “indirectly getting fat” on the situation with Norway. events in Ukraine.

Excessive profits from oil and gas in Norway’s small province of 5 million over the last few years, above the annual average, claims The Polish prime minister will exceed €100 billion, so Norway “must immediately share this surplus, huge profit.”

His words provoked a wave of comments. In the ruling party defending Morawiecki, they noted that there was a debate in Norway itself about how to send some of the money earned to Ukraine. The opposition criticized the statements of the head of government, emphasizing that they could adversely affect relations between Warsaw and Oslo. TASS.

… and how they responded in Oslo

In response, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs replied that the increased revenues from oil and gas exports mainly go to the pension fund for future generations. At the same time, Foreign Minister Eyvind Vad Petersson noted that despite the increase in oil profits due to the situation in Ukraine, the size of the fund has partially decreased by 550 billion Norwegian crowns (€53.6 billion). fall in the stock market. In addition, the Norwegian economy and consumers were also affected by high electricity and gasoline prices.

Petersson noted that Norway has already “made an important contribution to support Ukraine and will continue to make an even greater contribution”.

Deprive Russia of revenue from oil and gas exports…

We are also adding the G7 countries. they are discussing creation of a special cartel, the purpose of which will be to set a price threshold for Russian oil.

as he wrote BloombergThe creation of a buyer cartel to maintain a fixed price for Russian oil could minimize the Russian Federation’s revenue.

“Many people, including myself, find this option attractive from a general economic point of view, but actually initiating such a mechanism is a difficult task, all these issues are yet to be resolved,” said US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.

According to the agency’s sources, the leaders of EU countries, who will meet in Brussels at the end of May to discuss the situation in Ukraine, will also support the limitation of Russian oil prices. At the same time, another source noted that the implementation of such a plan is still far from being implemented.

Earlier, Deputy National Security Advisor Duleep Singh said that the United States and its allies will eventually try to deprive Russia of any revenue from oil and gas exports.

…and develop a “Marshall Plan” for Ukraine

Against this background, Borge Brende, Head of the World Economic Forum, said that Ukraine needs it. develop The newspaper writes of a major rescue and reconstruction program similar to the American “Marshall Plan”. Süddeutsche Zeitung.

“The country has suffered enough already. We have to start working on recovery. We need a Marshall Plan for Ukraine. This is what we want to achieve at Davos. We’re talking about infrastructure, electricity, schools, roads and bridges,” Brende explained.

He believes that even before the end of hostilities it is necessary to start implementing projects for the restoration of Ukraine.

The Marshall Plan (or “Europe Recovery Program”) was an aid program to Europe after the Second World War that allowed Western European countries that suffered during the war to receive economic aid from the United States.