The Security Council held a fifth informal straw poll for the next UN secretary-general on the 7th. Greece, serving as the Council’s monthly president, said after the vote that results will be communicated to candidates through their nominating countries.

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Belarus’s rail shipments of gasoline and diesel to Russia fell in September ahead of planned maintenance at one refinery, but year-to-date volumes remain well above the monthly average, according to two industry sources and institutional estimates. The country supplies Russia via two domestic refineries that process Russian crude with combined capacity of about 24 mln tonnes/year (roughly 480,000 bpd). September rail gasoline shipments declined about 13% month-on-month to ~170,000 tonnes; diesel shipments fell 29% to ~105,000 tonnes; jet fuel shipments rose to ~25,000 tonnes from 9,600 tonnes in August.