Sentences with phrase «russia agreed to a deal»

On the sidelines of the Asia - Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, held in Beijing this month, Russia agreed to a deal to supply even more natural gas to China, on top of a $ 400 billion pact inked earlier this year.

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Instead of following through on his threat to hit Assad in response, Obama agreed to let Russia step in and deal with the chemical - weapons stockpile.

The dossier alleges that the Trump campaign made a secret deal with Russia in which Trump «agreed to sideline» the issue of Russian intervention in Ukraine.

When the news broke late on Wednesday in Moscow, Russian and western media trumpeted it as the energy deal of the year: Glencore (glncy), the world's biggest commodities house, and the Qatar Investment Authority had agreed to buy a 19.5 % stake in Rosneft, Russia's national oil champion, for 10.5 billion euros ($ 11.1 billion).

Britain said on Sunday that it, France and Germany - the other signatories to the 2015 Iran deal along with Russia, China and the European Union - agreed that the accord was the best way of stopping Tehran from gaining nuclear weapons.

He sought congressional approval for military intervention in Syria, which he was not likely to get, and eventually brokered a deal with Russia that saw Assad agreeing to destroy most of the regime's arsenal of chemical weapons.

PDVSA could be forced to send more oil to Russia, or agree to more favorable upstream deals to Rosneft.

With Russia's LNG ambitions in trouble and pipeline exports have gained ascendency, but to seal the deal on Altai, Russia will have to agree to significant price discounts to make the offer too good to refuse.

Russia signed a major oil export deal with China in 2009, agreeing to supply 15 million tonnes per annum through the East Siberia — Pacific Ocean pipeline.

The crude oil production cut deal that OPEC, Russia, and several other producers agreed to late last year could get yet another extension.

Eventually, the US and Russia agreed on a deal to destroy Syria's chemical weapons, ending the strike threat.

Russia agreed in 2015 to sell crude to China for renminbi so as not to lose the deal to Saudi Arabia.

So they would be more inclined to pressure the anti-Assad groups the West supported to agree to a deal that allows Assad to keep its power (which is what Russia wants).

In February, ExxonMobil and Rosneft (Russia's state - run oil company) agreed to expand the deal they made in 2011 to drill for oil in the Russian Arctic.

Lambasted as a «carve - up «deal by critics for barring several nations and environmental groups from participating, the U.S., Norway, Russia, Denmark and Canada agreed to abide by the 1982 Law of the Sea in managing the region's vast oil and gas reserves.