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Russian and Belarusian officials meet in...

despite several rounds of talks.

Each side blames the other for the failure of the negotiations. Russia has offered to supply oil for domestic use duty free, but wants Belarus to pay the full rate for the remaining supplies, which are refined and then exported.

The preferential rates Minsk received in 2009 provided an essential lift to its struggling economy. This year it argues that under the new Customs Union with Russia and Kazakhstan all deliveries should be duty free.

MOSCOW, January 19 (RIA Novosti)



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