BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS
DATE:
05/01/2010
Russia resumes oil to Belarus refineries, no deal
Russia said it had resumed flows of crude to refineries in Belarus but it did not clinch a deal to resolve a tense price dispute with Minsk that raised fears oil supplies to European Union countries might be blocked.
Russia's foremost energy official, Igor Sechin, told Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday their country had restarted supplying refineries in neighbouring ex-Soviet Belarus on Jan. 3, but there were still "no signed agreements" with Minsk.
In a transcript of the Moscow meeting, on government website gov.ru, Putin told Deputy Prime Minister Sechin he hoped an agreement over oil deliveries to Belarus for 2010 and beyond would be reached "sometime soon".
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