5 January 2010
Belarus delegation off to Moscow to negotiate oil supplies
MINSK, 5 January (BelTA) – A Belarusian delegation is expected to travel to Moscow today to continue negotiating this year’s oil supplies, Press Secretary of the Belarus Prime Minister Alexander Timoshenko told BelTA. The delegation includes Chairman of the Belarusian petrochemical concern Belneftekhim Valery Kazakevich, Deputy Economy Minister Anatoly Filonov. They are supposed to finalize the protocol to the Belarus-Russia intergovernmental agreement on 12 January 2007. According to Alexander Timoshenko, the relevant proposals of the Belarusian side have been sent to the Russian side already. He stressed that if the experts agree on the final variant of the protocol, Belarus First Vice Premier Vladimir Semashko is ready to leave for Moscow to ink the documents.БЕЛТА