Pushkov praised the willingness of the US to provide oil for Belarus

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Senator Alexei Pushkov said the US Secretary of state Mike Pompeo about the ability of Washington to provide Belarus with oil.

“Recognizable in his time as “brought to a new level,” Yanukovych’s Ukraine”, – the politician wrote on Twitter.

Pompeo during a visit to Minsk said that American companies are able to meet the needs of Minsk in the oil at one hundred percent. According to him, the way the US will help Belarus “to create their own sovereign state,” reports of NSN.

Earlier it was reported that the Minsk talks on oil supplies with several potential partners. Among the possible suppliers was called the United States, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. According to Lukashenko, this measure is more expensive, but oil is better, than Russian.

At the beginning of the year, President of Belarus called the prices offered by Russia, to be excessive. According to the first Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Krutoy, Belarusian oil company, has been negotiating with the producers of raw materials.

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