The Japanese government wishes to include a paragraph About the construction of a refinery plant near Vladivostok in the new Treaty between Russia and Japan, which has the capability to be signed between the 2 countries during the planned visit of the President of the Russian Federation centuries Putin in Tokyo, informs on Wednesday.

As told the Mayor of the Japanese city of Niigata Akira Synod, from the outset it was expected to place refineries in the same Niigata Prefecture, but this idea would not." previously we had such an enterprise, but we decided that to repair it would be very difficult and expensive, for this reason, considering the idea of building a refinery near Vladivostok ", - told " Izvestia " of the Synod.

According to the mayor, if the enterprise will be built (the agreement will provide for its construction in the medium term, Japan will negotiate with the Russian Federation and About buying him a Russian oil." The exact value of oil while early to speak, but the cost is able to be one and a half times more than the price of Russian oil to China, " said the Mayor.

" I hope that the autumn Putin's visit to Japan will reveal to us these perspectives (refinery construction - as amended) and the intergovernmental agreement will be signed, " added the Mayor of Niigata city. Currently, according to him, the government of Japan is preparing the documents and the agreement with Russia, and, most likely, will enter the pipeline between Sakhalin and Hokkaido Islands.

according to the information synods, in the construction of refineries are interested 3 largest refinery organizations in the country - JX Nippon Oil

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