BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

21/07/2009

Belarus shuts down major Russian diesel pipeline

The closure will likely extend an already long list of Russia-Belarus trading rows over the past months, which involved disputes over gas arrears and dairy products amid Minsk's rapproachement with the West and chilly ties with its former top ally, Moscow.

Russia ships around 10 million tonnes of diesel per year to Ventspils via the territory of Belarus but plans to suspend those flows once it expands its own diesel export facilities on the Baltic Sea.

(Reporting by Andrei Makhovsky, writing by Dmitry Zhdannikov, Editing by Melissa Akin, + 7 495 775 12 42)

Source:

http://in.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idINLL60313420090721

Google
 


Partners:
Face.by Social Network
Face.by