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Название: Материалы на английском Главные Пункты: * Казахстан просит Россию увеличить нефтяную экспортную квоту. * Казахстан согласен экспортировать больше нефти через территорию России. * ЕБРР приостанавливает предоставление кредитов Туркменскому правительству. (25.04.2000) Полный Текст Материалы на английском Материалы на английском. ******* RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC ___________________________________________________________ RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 4, No. 74, Part I, 13 April 2000 KAZAKHSTAN TO ASK RUSSIA TO INCREASE OIL EXPORT QUOTA. Kazakhstan's Deputy Energy Minister Nurlan Qapparov told journalists in Astana on 12 April that Kazakhstan will ask Russia to increase by 1 million tons the amount of oil it may export via Russian pipelines this year, Interfax reported. This would bring the total to 11 million tons. Qapparov said that oil should be exported via the Atyrau-Samara pipeline, which has an annual throughput capacity of 11.5 million tons. He added that a feasibility study is being prepared on reconstruction of the pipeline at an estimated cost of $30 million to increase throughput capacity to 15 million tons. Visiting Astana on 11 April, Russian Deputy Fuel and Energy Minister Vladimir Stanev and Transneft President Semen Vainshtok proposed to Kazakhstan's Premier Qasymzhomart Toqaev that Kazakhstan export up to 3 million tons of oil annually via the newly-completed Chechen bypass pipeline. Doing so would entail shipping the oil by barge across the Caspian to Makhachkala. LF ******* RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC ___________________________________________________________ RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 4, No. 79, Part I, 20 April 2000 KAZAKHSTAN AGREES TO EXPORT MORE OIL VIA RUSSIA. Russian Fuel and Energy Minister Viktor Kalyuzhnii and Kazakhstan's Energy, Industry, and Trade Minister Vladimir Shkolnik signed an agreement in Moscow on 19 April whereby Russia will allow Kazakhstan to increase by 3 million tons the amount of oil it exports this year via Russian pipelines, Interfax reported. Two million tons of that amount will be exported via the newly-completed pipeline from Makhachkala to Novorossiisk bypassing Chechnya, and the remaining 1 million tons via the Atyrau-Samara pipeline (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 11 and 13 April 2000). Also n 19 April, Nurlan Balghymbaev, head of Kazakhstan's state oil company, told a news conference in Atyrau that the cabinet will probably reject a proposal by the Customs Committee to impose an export duty of 15 euros ($14.4) per ton on exports of crude oil. LF EBRD SUSPENDS LOANS TO TURKMEN GOVERNMENT. In a statement issued in London on 18 April, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development said it will no longer advance loans to Turkmenistan's public sector because of that country's lack of progress towards democratization or market reform, Reuters reported. EBRD First Vice President Charles Frank said that failure "suggests that the government of Turkmenistan is not committed to one of the basic principles upon which the EBRD is founded." The statement said that the bank will continue to provide funding for private sector programs in Turkmenistan. The EBRD has signed five projects in Turkmenistan worth a total of $208.2 million. On 19 April, Turkmenistan's President Saparmurat Niyazov criticized the EBRD's decision. Niyazov had refused earlier this week to meet with an EBRD delegation, according to the "Financial Times" of 19 April. LF |