OREANDA-NEWS  Russia has resumed oil supplies to the Philippines, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Georgy Borisenko has confirmed.

"Russian oil supplies to the archipelago have been resumed," he said at the opening of the exhibition on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and the Philippines.

At the end of April, the Philippine Ambassador to Moscow, Igor Bailen, announced the Philippines' interest in oil supplies from Russia in the long term.

The first shipment of Russian crude oil in five years arrived in the Philippines at the end of March. A vessel with 100,000 metric tons (about 750,000 barrels) of ESPO Blend crude oil loaded at the Russian port of Kozmino in the Far East has successfully arrived in Limai municipality in the Philippine province of Bataan.