Current Scheme of Oil Supplies to Belarus is Not Perpetual, Russian Ministry of Economic Development and Trade

30.03.2010 14:25
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Director of the Department of analysis and regulation of foreign economic activity, Russian Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Alexey Likhachev, said that the current Russian scheme under the terms of oil supplies to Belarus "is not perpetual ". However, in the issue of Russian oil deliveries to Belarus, Moscow is not going to revise this scheme and will be guided by the existing agreement", he said.

Director of the Department of analysis and regulation of foreign economic activity, Russian Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Alexey Likhachev, said that the current Russian scheme under the terms of oil supplies to Belarus «is not perpetual «. However, in the issue of Russian oil deliveries to Belarus, Moscow is not going to revise this scheme and will be guided by the existing agreement», he said.
 
Commenting on the possibility of Russian position’s revising on the terms of oil supplies to Belarus and duties on petroleum products in connection with a lawsuit filed by Belarusian side to the CIS Economic Court, Alexey Likhachev noted that July 1, 2010 — when united customs territory begins its work — neither is a subject to review bilateral agreements between Russia and Belarus. 

«I have not seen Belarusian lawsuit to Russia. I know about it only from Belarusian Vice-Premier, Andrei Kobyakov. We understand the context of what is happening, but we do not understand the legal structure, which Belarus offers «, IA REGNUM-Belarus quotes the words of Ministry of Economic Development and Trade’s representative.

According to Alexey Likhachev, in the same way «as the integration of the Customs Union will develop, in the same way, relations between Russia and Belarus will change». «The final goal is Customs Union+ scheme. It means the complete unification of import and export duties, elaboration of the mechanism of substitution and splitting. But it is an element of united economic space, but not of the Customs Union», he stressed.
 
Aleksei Likhachev marked that in customs unions — existing in the world — there are different views on the use of export duties. «Some unions use them, the others do not», the representative of Russian Ministry of Economic Development and Trade said, adding that in the issue of oil supplies to Belarus in the short term prospective Russian side will be guided by the current agreement — signed in the winter of 2010. 

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