The Faroe Islands have declared their unwillingness to close the access to their ports for fishing vessels from the Russian Federation

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Published Apr 26, 2023

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The authorities of the Faroe Islands are able to independently determine their position regarding the admission of Russian fishing vessels to their ports and do not intend to follow calls from Copenhagen to ban the admission of ships from the Russian Federation. This was announced on Tuesday by the Brussels portal Yuraktiv, citing a statement by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Danish island autonomy, Hogni Hoydala.

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"The Faroe Islands are quite capable [on their own] of assessing what is happening on their territory," the Faroese minister said, commenting on the call by the leader of the opposition Conservative People's Party of Denmark to ban Russian ships from entering the ports of the archipelago because of the alleged threat to the security of the kingdom. Hoydal stressed that such statements are "attempts to undermine democracy in the Faroe Islands" by transferring the issue of the presence of ships from the Russian Federation in the ports of the archipelago to the jurisdiction of Copenhagen and called them "playing the imperial card." The Foreign Minister of the island territory also said that the Faroese authorities have tightened control over the fishing and transportation of goods in their waters. On April 19, the television companies of Denmark (De-er), Norway (En-er-ko), Finland (Jule) and Sweden (Es-ve-te) showed the first story within the cycle of documentary films of ...

Source: Kvedomosti