New Delhi, Oct. 19 -- Turkey says it has a claim on the Russian diesel that Moscow and Washington agreed to release on October 9, yet the only public account of that arrangement is a single television answer from its energy minister. Neither the American license nor the Russian government's statement names Turkey.

46 UTC. As TEH reported on Wednesday, Moscow said no Russian diesel contract with the US had been signed.

Bayraktar was in Moscow for Russian Energy Week on Friday, when the Russian government says he held a working meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak. Sputnik does not say which meetings he meant. The government's readout describes "a broad range of issues relating to bilateral cooperation in the fuel and energy...