Earlier, the same decision was made by the United States.
The United Kingdom can join the United States and deconserve its strategic oil reserves . This was reported by Bloomberg with reference to two “familiar with the issue” interlocutors.
They will do this to lower oil prices and reduce Russia's influence on the world's energy security.
“It is likely that a statement will be released through the International Energy Agency on Friday,” Bloomberg quoted interlocutors as saying.
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It will be recalled that the United States and the European Union have announced a new joint initiative to resolve the emergency situation in the field of energy security – to get rid of dependence on Russia by 2027.
To prepare for the next heating season, the US and the EU will work to attract an additional 15 billion cubic meters of liquefied natural gas to the EU in 2022. An EU energy platform is also being set up to sum up Europeans' energy demand from April to October 2022.
