Lukashenko tasks Cabinet to work out issue of oil supplies through Baltic ports

17:35 - 10.01.2019


January 10, Fineko/abc.az. President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus has tasked the government to work out the issue of alternative options for oil supplies to the republic through the Baltic ports.

President Lukashenko said this at a meeting on the socio-economic development of the country in 2019 and approaches to the further development of integration areas.

"I have long set a task, and we need to solve it: to open alternative supply of oil through the Baltic ports. If the Lithuanians do not agree, then we can agree on the occasion with the Latvians and buy this oil, process it at the Novopolotsk refinery and deliver to the Baltic republics," agency BelTA quotes Alexander Lukashenko.

According to the Belarusian leader, this year it is planned to complete modernization of two Belarusian refineries, after which Belarus will be able to buy oil for further processing not only from Russia.

Lukashenka stressed that it will be cheaper for the Baltic states than now, when they buy oil products at world prices.

"We can agree that it will be our common oil to be refined by us at the modernized Novopolotsk oil refinery. Moreover, we even have some opportunities in this regard," he underlined.

 

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