Kazakhstan''s Prime Minister, Karim Masimov, has suggested redirecting the flow of the Kazakh oil going via the Georgian sea port of Batumi to domestic consumption. He made this proposal at today''s on-phone government meeting.

"Let us redirect oil flow to domestic use and resolve this issue along with the Energy Ministry," Masimov said, addressing to the president of the KazMunayGaz joint- stock company, Serik Burkitbayev.

Asked by journalists, who wanted to obtain more specific information, whether oil will be exported via this sea port, Burkitbayev said: "No, at the moment".

According to him, the case in point is up to 1m tones a year on average.

Earlier at the meeting, the head of the KazMunayGaz said that according to the latest information, "by this morning no acts of hostility aimed at the Batumi port and the oil terminal owned by Kazakhstan there have been observed".