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Adamkus offers Belarus oil transit possibilities, while Russia continues its ‘bypass frenzy’

Feb 21, 2007
By Gary Peach

BELARUS OR BUST: Adamkus spoke with Dick Cheney and other U.S. officials about his plan while visiting Washington earlier this month.
RIGA - Oil transit was thrown into the spotlight again last week after announcements that Lithuania was interested in helping Belarus curtail reliance on Russian oil imports and that Russia’s Transneft intended to build to new pipeline bypassing Belarus. While in Washington, Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus told a press conference at the National Press Club that the Baltic state has offered Belarus use of its oil import terminal and pipeline system to import crude oil. He added that he had sp ...

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