Kyrgyzstan and Russian to investigate hydrocarbons market

Kyrgyzstan and Russia have agreed upon an investigation of the Kyrgyz hydrocarbons market. The statement was voiced by the Prime-Minister Daniyar Usenov at the session of Kyrgyz-Russian Inter-governmental Commission on trade, economic, science, technical and humanitarian cooperation on 27 February, 2010 in Moscow.

By the Minister: Russia for the first time mentioned the need to explore hydrocarbons market with Belarus. “Russia has export duties of oil products for far-abroad countries that are not applied to post-soviet countries. “It means that post-soviet countries buy gasoline at a low price than other states do”, Usenov said.

The Prime-Minister underlined that Russia suspects Belarus of reexportation of oil products provided by the Russian Federation to the third states. Later the same happened with Kyrgyzstan. Russia does not exclude that Kyrgyzstan might also re-export some part of oil products. “We have no such data, that is why we have decided to create a unified group to investigate the question”, the Prime Minister said.