KIEV, Sept. 29 - Ukraine plans to move 9 million metric tons of crude oil coming from Venezuela to refineries in Belarus in 2011, Ukrainian transportation and communications minister Kostiantyn Yefimenko said Wednesday.

An agreement with Belarus over transportation of the crude oil was formally approved at a government meeting on Wednesday.

Ukraine is expected to move about 1.5 million mt of Venezuelan crude to Belarus in 2010, Yefimenko said.