4 January 2010
Interstate agreement does not envisage duty on Russian oil for Belarus in 2010
MINSK, 4 January (BelTA) – The interstate agreement does not envisage duties on the Russian oil exported to Belarus in 2010, Vyacheslav Terekh, head of a specialized legal consultation office, told BelTA while commenting on the current situation with the export customs duties on the Russian oil for Belarus. According to Vyacheslav Terekh, Belarus and Russia signed a special intergovernmental agreement on oil deliveries on 12 January 2007. The document defines the amount of the export duty. The agreement does not envisage levying an export duty on the Russian oil for Belarus at the rate of 100% in 2010 and the subsequent years. In accordance with one of the major principles of the international law “Pacta sunt servanda” formulated in the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties of 1969, every agreement is obligatory for the fulfillment by its participants. The agreement remains in force as it does not envisage any clauses on its termination on 1 January 2010.БЕЛТА