Ventspils' fate decided next week

  • 2003-03-13
  • Gary Peach
RIGANext week a Russian commission will convene to decide the country's second-quarter oil export schedule, and according to insiders it is unclear whether any decision favorable for Latvia and the oil transit company Ventspils Nafta will emerge from the crucial meeting. But the situation looks grim. Rather than hold any 11th hour emergency negotiations to renew the oil flow to a crippled Ventspils, talks between the two sides seem to have broken down.In fact, at times both Latvian and Russian officials seem to be communicating via newspaper interviews and notes of diplomatic protest."We fi...
 
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