The prime ministers of Kyrgyzstan and Russia will hold talks today in Moscow, 24.kg reported. Almazbek Atambayev and Vladimir Putin will discuss duty-free POL deliveries in Kyrgyzstan.
According to Russian media, the proposed meeting will touch upon bilateral trade and economic cooperation issues as well as cooperation within international organizations.
Besides, "the theme of the meeting will likely focus on external debt of KR to Russia. This topic was discussed on the eve by Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin and Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan. Perhaps they will also discuss the continuation of duty-free fuel export from Russia. In April 2010, the Federal Customs Service introduced a hundred percent export duty on supplied oil and oil products to KR, whereas earlier the tax was zero. The Russian side expressed its concern that Kyrgyzstan may have engaged in re-export of Russian oil," RIA-Novosti said.
"Kyrgyzstan backs on support of its application for a concessional loan from the EurAsEC Crisis Fund in the amount of $ 200 million. The parties intend to discuss cooperation in energy sector. Earlier, Kyrgyz authorities said "they are interested in seeing Russian involvement in energy projects of the republic and privatization of state-owned shares of Kyrgyzgaz", Russian journalists note.
Recall that on February 18, 2011, State Enterprise "Fuel filling complex Manas" and the Russian company "Gazprom Neft-Aero" signed a package of constituent documents of a joint Kyrgyz-Russian company Gazprom Neft-Aero-Kyrgyzstan". The joint venture intended to supply aviation fuel at Pentagon Transit Center, located at the international airport "Manas".