BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

25/03/2010

Belarus sues Russia over oil duty

MINSK, March 25 (Reuters) - Belarus has filed a lawsuit against Russia over oil export fees, the Belarussian justice ministry said on Thursday.

The suit was filed to an official Commonwealth of Independent States court.

Russia allowed Belarus to import oil last year at only 35.6 percent of its crude export tariff.

But in January the two countries signed a new supply deal resolving a month-long row that had threatened to disrupt Russian oil flows to European Union members Germany and Poland. [ID:nLDE60Q27P]

Under the new agreement, Belarus will have to pay full export duties for much of the oil it receives from Russia.

(Reporting by Andrey Makhovsky and Vladimir Soldatkin; Editing by Alfred Kueppers)

Source:

http://in.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idINLDE62O0MH20100325


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