First Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Semashko of Belarus

Belarus ready to discuss any cooperation projects with Great Britain, Vladimir Semashko saysBelarus is ready to discuss any cooperation projects with Great Britain, First Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Semashko said during a meeting with Cecil Parkinson, a member of the House of Lords of the British Parliament, in Minsk on March 11.

Belarusian First Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Semashko said last Friday that Belarus had insisted that an additional agreement be signed with Russia to adjust its natural gas price for 2009.

Belarusian First Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Semashko is in Moscow today for talks and the two sides have agreed how to resolve the dispute, Alexander Timoshenko, a Belarus government spokesman, said in a phone interview from Minsk.

late on Tuesday after his return from failed talks in Moscow.

Kupryanov had said earlier that little progress was possible before Semashko joined the negotiations in Moscow, describing him as the "main negotiator.

Chinese investors will help maintain a high production level in Belarus, First Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus Vladimir Semashko said at a meeting with a delegation of the EXIM BANK group on October 29.

Vladimir Semashko praised the mutual trade growth.

If I don't have a domestic gas supply contract, Gazprom won't have a transit deal," Belarus's Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Semashko said at Minsk airport late on Tuesday after his return from failed talks in Moscow.

The rise in energy prices for Belarus is a difficult test for the economy," Semashko said at a news conference, two days after his government averted a threatened gas cutoff by agreeing to pay the Russian state gas monopoly OAO Gazprom more than twice the 2006 price this year and even more in the future.

Semashko had said he hoped a resolution of the gas price dispute would help the sides address the oil customs duty.

Belarus is offering to share the income from oil sales if Russia scraps the customs duty, and Semashko said that Minsk was willing to discuss a 50-50 split.

Vladimir Semashko: fuel-energy balance of Belarus and Russia to be signed in November15:54, 04/11/2005The government would like the energy ministry to sign the fuel-energy balance for 2005 and by 2020 in November, first deputy prime minister Vladimir Semashko has stated in the course of the branch-wise workshop on increasing the efficiency of energy production.

Semashko said Belarus is satisfied with the fast development of and abundant achievements made in bilateral relations.

Semashko said that at least some of the components of the reactor would be produced in Ukraine, but the bulk would be produced in Belarus.

MINSK (AFX) - Energy supplies to Europe depend on Russian gas group Gazprom striking a deal with Belarus over the price of natural gas exports to the former Soviet republic, Belarussian First Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Semashko said today.

Semashko said the transportation of Russian gas to western Europe, about 20 pct of which is tranported via Belarus, was linked to Gazprom overcoming a bitter price dispute and agreeing to continue supplying Belarus' domestic needs.

But Semashko said that as Gazprom relies on pipelines through Belarus for transit of its gas to European customers, the cut-off will not happen.

Deputy Prime Minister Semashko says Belarus is ready to do it, “but only after 2011 when Gazprom has acquired 50 % in Beltransgaz.

At present, we are holding negotiations with our Russian counterparts,” Vladimir Semashko said without giving details.

Mr Semashko described this as a provocation, according to the Russian news agency Itar-Tass.

Belarusian First Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Semashko said Belarus would pay US$100 (76) per 1,000 cubic meters of gas — US$5 (3.

Belarusian First Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Semashko said Saturday that Belarus would pay US$100 (76) per 1,000 cubic meters of gas — US$5 (3.

Speaking at a news conference hours after nightfall in the Belarusian capital, Minsk, Semashko said he intended to fly to Moscow on Sunday morning to join ongoing talks.

We are approaching a solution to the problem," Semashko said of the bitter gas price dispute that could affect European supplies.

Semashko said the customs duties would be "beyond the strength of the Belarusian economy" and that he hoped the issue could be resolved along with the gas price dispute.

Semashko said that if the gas agreement and its formula of pricing gas are applied, Belarus may face a steep rise in prices because fuel prices are soaring throughout the world.

The Ministry of Architecture and Construction of Belarus needs to sign a supplement of the contract with the Chinese company CITIC, First Vice-Premier of Belarus Vladimir Semashko said at a session of the Council of.

At the signing ceremony, Belarus' First Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Semashko said the new fields will roughly triple the joint venture's capacity to 2 million tons of oil a year.

Belarusian First Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Semashko said Dec 27 that Belarus will increase transit fees for Russian natural gas going though its territory to Western Europe if Russian energy.

Belarussian First Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Semashko has expressed the hope that Belarus and Russia will sign a contract on gas supplies for 2009 before the end of December.

First Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Semashko said Belarus would pay $100 per 1,000 cubic meters of gas _ $5 less than what Gazprom has demanded in talks to avert a New Year's Day cutoff of deliveries.