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Kazakhstan says ready to increase oil supplies to Germany
Kazakhstan's president said during a visit to Berlin on Thursday that his country was willing to increase oil deliveries to German over the long term, as resource-poor Berlin seeks alternatives to imports from Russia amid the invasion of Ukraine. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev said during a press conference with Chancellor Olaf Scholz that Astana had shipped 500,000 metric tons of oil to Germany via Russia's Druzhba pipeline this year, following Berlin's decision to stop buying Russian oil. "At our German friends' request, I have confirmed our country's readiness to increase oil supplies and make them long-term," Tokayev ... (full story)