The London High Court has lifted a freeze...

"The parties came to agreement, as a result of which the High Court of London accepted our guarantees and the freeze of assets was cancelled," Nikolai Manvelov said.

The Yukos managers earlier won injunctions in the United States and Great Britain stemming from legal disputes during bankruptcy proceedings against Yukos in 2007. Media reports said the injunctions could jeopardize payments by foreign customers for Rosneft"s oil deliveries.

Rosneft said last month it had partly overturned the lawsuit in the U.S., pledged to challenge the London injunction and made assurances that its export supplies would not be affected.

Once Russia"s largest oil producer, Yukos collapsed after charges of tax evasion led to the company being broken up and sold off to meet debts. The bulk of the company"s assets were bought up by state-run oil company Rosneft.

Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who was sentenced to eight years in prison for fraud and tax evasion, has consistently

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