03 June 2004 12:45
RUSSIA PROPOSES JOINT DEVELOPMENT OF BARENTS SEA DEPOSITS WITH NORWAY
OSLO. June 3 (Interfax) - Moscow and Oslo have made progress in their coordinated work to delimit the Barents Sea,
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a Wednesday briefing in Oslo.
"Moscow is in favor of jointly developing the oil and gas fields on
the shelf by Russian and Norwegian companies without waiting for a
formal end to the negotiations [on the delimitation of the Barents
"We [Russia and Norway] have not delimited the Barents Sea yet. We have completed two-thirds of the work needed,
but we still have some issues to coordinate," Lavrov said.
Sea]," he said.
Norway has agreed to consider this possibility, he noted.
[Interfax] |
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