Belarus cancels Russian oil
duty
MOSCOW, Jan. 10 (Xinhua) -- Belarus canceled a
customs duty it imposed on Russian oil transiting through the country to Europe,
which lied in the heart of a trade dispute over oil between the two countries,
Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky said on Wednesday.
Sidorsky, quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency, said
he would go to Moscow on Thursday for a meeting with his Russian counterpart
Mikhail Fradkov to resolve the issue. "I shall contact my Russian counterpart
promptly to ensure we can get down to work as soon as tomorrow," he said.
Russia seeking alternative routes amid
row with Belarus
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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a
meeting with government ministers in Moscow's Kremlin. (Xinhua/AFP
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MOSCOW, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- President Vladimir Putin
ordered the government on Tuesday to consider cutting the country's oil
production amid a trade dispute over oil with Belarus, and a government minister
said Russia is seeking alternative routes for its crude exports to Europe that
bypass the eastern neighbor.
Belarus halts Russian oil flow to
Europe
MOSCOW, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- Transit shipments of Russian
oil supplies to Poland, Germany and Ukraine through Belarus were stopped over
the weekend, the Interfax news agency reported on Monday, but the European Union
(EU) said the bloc faced "no immediate risk" of energy shortage.
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An oil refinery in Plock, Poland, is seen in this
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Azerbaijan halts oil exports to Europe via Russian
pipeline
MOSCOW, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- Azerbaijani oil supplies
via Russia to Europe have been halted for more than a week in an energy price
row with Russia, Azerbaijan's state-owned oil company SOCAR said on Monday.
The dispute flared up after Russian state gas firm
Gazprom increased the cost of its gas exports to Azerbaijan to 235 U.S. dollars
per 1,000 cubic meters from last year's price of 110 dollars.
Energy supplies should not be used to threaten
Belarus
MOSCOW, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Belarussian President Alexander
Lukashenko said on Sunday that energy supplies should not be used as a means to
threaten his country, reports from Minsk said.
Although Belarus does not produce petroleum and
natural gas, other countries should not use energy supplies to threaten the
Belarussian people, Lukashenko told a religious gathering in the capital. Full Story>>
EU says "no immediate risk" for oil supplies despite
Belarus-Russia row
BRUSSELS, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- The European Union (EU)
said on Monday that the disruption of oil supplies from Russia to the EU through
Belarus posed "no immediate risk" to energy supplies in the bloc.
EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs was in close
contact with Polish, German, Slovak and other European authorities to evaluate
the impact following an interruption of oil supplies from a pipeline running
through Belarus to Poland and Western Europe, Piebalgs' spokesman Ferran
Tarradellas Espuny said. Full Story>>
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