RUSSIA GAS
November 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE RUSSIAN government has been pressing the European Union (EU) for a promise that it will not impose cap on its gas imports preventing it buying more than 30 per cent of its supplies from one non-EU exporter, papers released at last week's EU-Russia summit in Brussels have revealed. It says that Moscow diplomats have often repeated such concerns, even alleging that such a limit was already in existence. This prompted the European Commission to hold a meeting with experts from its Member States, which concluded that there was currently no such ...
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