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RUSSIA: MOSCOW DEMANDS RELEASE OF OIL TANKER.

IPR Strategic Business Information Database, April, 2000

The Russian Foreign Ministry on 13 April demanded the immediate release of the Russian oil tanker "Akademik Pustovoit," which was detained in the Persian Gulf last week on suspicion of transporting Iraqi oil in violation of UN sanctions. The previous day, U.S. State Department spokesman James Rubin had said in Washington that no new information was available on the origins of the tanker's cargo.

Both Russian officials and the Royal Dutch/Shell Oil company, which chartered the vessel, have said that the oil comes from Iran. JC Copyright (c) 1999. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

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