CROATIA MINISTER OF ECONOMICS BECOMES ABOUT OIL TRANSIT IN MOSCOW
SPEAKING








BELGRADE, 12 March (of RIA Nowosti rIA-Nowosti-Korrespondent Sergej
Rjabikin).  An economic delegation of Croatia under line of the
minister of economics Goranko Fizulic will arrive on today's Monday in
Moscow, in order to agree upon with Russian colleagues a crude oil
transit over the Adriati oil pipeline.  Thereby a meeting of the
delegation will be particularly important in the agency for export
quotas, which gives permission for the export of concrete quantities
of oil to the Russian oil companies.

Meetings with representatives of the society Lukoil, which has the
largest export quotas, are intended.  Croatia would like from Lukoil
approximately ten million crude oil to get, which transported, over
the Adriati pipeline, 80 million dollar gain to bring could.  With
Lukoil the delegation wants to speak also about the sales of equipment
for oil refineries.

The Adriati oil pipeline, over which approximately 35 million tons oil
can be carried in the year, is at present only fewer to than a quarter
of their capacities working at full capacity.