UPDATE President Basescu: Unless Lukoil resumes production, I ask government to be ready to take over refinery

President Traian Basescu said on Thursday that the Government must be prepared to take over the refinery in Ploiesti, unless Lukoil resumes production on Friday.

"I am not discussing the 'autochthonous' approaches, only the threat, the pressure put by a leader of the Lukoil company against the prosecutors and the Government of Romania. I believe that such an approach is inadmissible and if tomorrow Lukoil doesn't resume production, I will ask the Government of Romania to be prepared to take over the refinery in Ploiesti, because this went much too far," said the head of state at the Cotroceni Palace.

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