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Wrap: Belarus suspends Russian oil transit to Europe over duty dispute

20:49 08/01/2007

Belarus has suspended Russian oil transit to Europe over Russia's failure to pay a transit duty of $45 per metric ton of oil going through Belarusian territory.

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Russia may seek international support over Belarus oil tapping
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Russia's economics ministry said Moscow might turn to international organizations to make Belarus compensate the damage it caused by tapping Russia's Europe-bound oil.
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Germany's economy minister, presiding over the EU council of energy ministers, warned Monday against dramatizing the disruption of Russia's European oil supplies via Belarus.
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Wrap: Belarus suspends Russian oil transit to Europe over duty dispute

Russia may seek international support over Belarus oil tapping

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Russia refuses to let in Georgian tangerine trucks

Belarus tapped 80,000 mt of Europe-bound oil - Russia

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