BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

26/01/2007

Belarus, Russia have not signed oil delivery contract for Feb - Lukashenko

MINSK. Jan 26 (Interfax) - Belarus and Russia have not yet signed contracts for the delivery of crude oil in February, because Russia wants Belarus to purchase oil at prices higher than those on the world market, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said in Minsk on Friday.

"An oil contract for February has not been signed," he said.

Russia demands that "we buy oil at prices that are higher than those on the world" market, Lukashenko said. "It is not good at all. It is unprecedented," he said.

Source:

http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11666590