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Barroso finally expresses support for refinery

Mar 14, 2007
By TBT staff

FINALLY, SOME SUPPORT: Lithuania has been waiting for Brussels to speak up about Russia’s de facto oil embargo.
VILNIUS - Seven months after Russia decided to cut oil supplies to Lithuania, depriving the Baltics’ only refinery of life-sustaining feedstock, the European Commission finally addressed the problem and promised to take it up with Moscow. In a letter to Lithuania’s and Poland’s prime ministers, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso acknowledged the extent of the oil supply crisis and its harm to the two countries’ economic interests. He even promised that he would take up ...

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