talks with Belarus on duty-free deliveries of Russia"s oil is complex, although the Belarusian side and made a number of new proposals, said a source familiar with the negotiations.

"Negotiations are in very difficult circumstances. Members of the Belarusian delegation virtually no flexibility, as are the positions given the leadership of the Republic of Belarus", - said the source.

However, he said, the Belarusian side has made a number of new proposals, including those relating to changes in customer"s regime and the volume of actual consumption of oil.

The source claims that "despite the complex nature of the negotiations, have all chances to reach this time of the signing of bilateral documents, if Russia would at least minimal trade-off, while the Belarusian side will be the appropriate authority and approval of the Belarusian leadership . "This is a convergence of views on the issue of tariffs and the method of indexing," - explained.

According to the source, "the fact of the protracted negotiations said that the negotiators on both sides ignore the fact that the Belarusian oil refineries remained a maximum of one week.

"This means that in case of incompleteness can not be excluded that the Belarusian side will go to the siphoning off of the transit of Russia"s oil. Although it will definitely be considered as theft with all the ensuing legal consequences," - "the source said.

He drew attention to the fact that, according to some Western oil traders, the latter started to reserve capacity in Rostock and Gdansk for a possible oil pumping in reverse for European consumers.

official comments on the Russian-Belarusian talks on oil supplies could be obtained.

In turn, a source at Transneft, speaking of the negotiations, said that it is primarily about the transit tariff for pumping oil through the territory of Belarus.

According to him, at the present time, "Summarizing the work of expert groups, is clarifying the positions of the parties".

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