Belarus and Russia will sign a new agreement on the supply of agricultural products by the end of the year

September 13, Saint Petersburg /Olga Belyavskaya - BELTA/. Belarus and Russia will sign a new agreement on mutual supplies of agricultural products by the end of the year. This was announced today to journalists in Saint Petersburg by the Prime Minister of Belarus, Sergei Sidorsky, BELTA correspondent reports. According to the Prime Minister, the ministries of agriculture of the two countries are actively engaged in dialogue, discussing the prospects for supplies of meat and dairy products. It is expected that at the meeting of the collegiums of the two ministries, a document will be signed that will determine how agricultural products will be supplied. "We are currently finalizing the preparation of documents for the single economic space of the Customs Union with the Russian government, and one of the issues is work in the agricultural markets," Sergei Sidorsky said. "This agreement is highly advanced, and experts in both Minsk and Moscow are working on it." According to the Prime Minister of Belarus, the agreement on agricultural product supplies will be signed before January 1 of next year. "We are moving towards making it profitable for Belarusian producers to work in the Russian market, and vice versa. This document should resolve all issues," he added. At the same time, Sergei Sidorsky recalled that Belarus and Russia have already made all decisions regarding sanitary and quarantine control. These documents have removed barriers to product supplies within the Customs Union. "There is clear progress here," the Prime Minister believes. -0-