Minsk hopes to sort out paperwork on milk shipments to Russia in time

The Ministry of Agriculture of Belarus expects that dairy enterprises will make it in time to process the paperwork for the exports of milk products to Russia, Belarus' deputy agriculture minister Mikhail Saveleyu said in a statement.
Commenting on yesterday's statement by Russian chief sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko Savelyeu said that Belarus' dairies sent 817 samples of verious products for tests in Russian labs.

Belarus has already received 171 expertise approvals for 185 dairy products. Savelyeu hopes that everything will have been completed by August 1. However, Onishchenko said yesterday that only 40 percent of applications from Belarus were approved.