Belarus makes room for deal with Russia in potash saga | beyondbrics

Belarus makes room for deal with Russia in potash saga | beyondbrics:

"Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus’s president, has broken his unusual reticence about the ongoing potash fight with neighbouring Russia, telling the local press that arrested Uralkali executive Vladislav Baumgertner could be extradited back to Russia as long as the Russians continue to investigate the case.

“If Russian investigators are interested in the extradition of the detained, I don’t see any special problems with it,” Lukashenko said, according to the government Belta news agency.

Bumgertner was arrested in Minsk on August 26 after being invited to visit the country’s prime minister to try to resolve a long-running dispute with Belaruskali, the government-owned Belarusian potash producer.

Belarus insists that Uralkali is in the wrong in the fight and that the company’s management had manipulated a cartel formed by the two potash companies to benefit themselves."

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