BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

05/01/2007

Belarus denies destroying customs union with Russia

MINSK, January 5 (Itar-Tass) - Belarus denies destroying by its acts the customs union with Russia.

"The answering measures in the energy dispute are absolutely logical and do not contradict the international law," the chief of the Belarussian president's press service, Pavel Legky, told Itar-Tass on Friday.

He called "untrue" statements by some of Russian officials who said that Belarus is destroying the customs union.

"By introducing an export tax on crude oil and using a whole range of restrictive measures on Belarussian sugar violating the intergovernmental agreement that envisages not using measures of non-tariff regulation in mutual trade, the Russian side in fact has begun destroying the customs union," Legky said.

"It should be clearly seen who is violating the accords on free trade between the two countries. Its quite apparent that it is not Belarus," he stressed.

Source:

http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=11134934&PageNum=0

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