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Russia to âlose out on Iraqi oilâ
Russia can forget about its oil interests in Iraq, Washington and London having decided to cut Moscow out of any postwar arrangements in restructuring Iraq's resources, the head of Russian state-run oil firm Zarubezhneft said in an interview yesterday. "We're clearly going to have to cut our losses on anything we have there and anything we could have had," the company's general manager Nikolai Tokarev told the daily Vremya Novostei. They are finally getting the picture, or are they? "The Americans haven't gone into this war intending to share with anyone. It's a war trophy," he said. Trust me, Nikolai, if you'll just agree to play by the rules, we'll let you play too. "We were on to some huge deposits, irrigation projects, a whole lot of things apart from the oil sector," he said. "were" being the operative word...time to face the future instead of the past. Posted by: becky 2003-03-28 |
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