Chronicle of conflict. Day Three (being updated)
Moscow authorities do not have a grievance against quality of Belarusian dairy products.
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Moscow authorities do not have a grievance against quality of Belarusian dairy products
Belarusian producers supply products of good quality to Russia but they have to render their documentation in accordance with Russian standards. The head of the grocery department of Moscow Alexander Baburin has informed “Interfax” about it this Tuesday.
“It is wrong to play by your own rules on our territory”, - said the Moscow official.
He also noted that the information about Belarusian products being cheaper than Russian ones did not represent the facts.
If Russia does not buy milk, Belarus will turn it into alcohol
The director of the Institute of meat and milk industry Alyaksei Melyashenya has informed ERB that Belarus has equipment necessary for processing the milk Russia is refusing to buy.
The surplus of milk can be turned into casein that is well imported now or it can be dried – dried milk can be stored for up to 2 years. And this isn’t the limit – buttermilk can even be turned into alcohol, says Alyalksei Melyashenya.
Alyaksei Melyashchenya: “Buttermilk can be used to produce alcohol.But it is a bit more expensive than making it from grain”.
However, the director of the Institute of meat and milk industry hopes that it will be possible to settle the problem with Russia and to make alcohol with the help of the usual technology using grain.
More details will be available on ERB’s website soon
Ukraine is ready to increase import of Belarusian dairy products
The Ukrainian Ambassador to Belarus Igor Lihovoi has mentioned the high quality of Belarusian dairy products. According to him, Ukraine is ready to increase the import of Belarusian milk to match Ukrainians’ demand.
After Ukraine joined the World Trade Organization, its markets became more open, informed the Ambassador in an interview with “Interfax”. In his opinion, a lot depends on the correlation of quality and price and on advertising in the field of promotion of Belarusian dairy products in the Ukrainian market.
Commenting on the Belarusian-Russian milk conflict, Lihovoi noted that Ukraine was watching and assessing the situation.
He recalled that Ukrainian dairy enterprises had undergone a similar ordeal several years before. As a result, part of the goods, namely hard cheese, found its consumers in other markets – from the Western Europe to the Middle East and some of the goods returned to the Russian market after a few ceremonial functions due to insistent demands of consumers.
Opposition expresses opinion about “milk war”
The liberalization used as a mask is dangerous. Andrei Sannikau claimed it during a press conference of opposition leaders on June 16.
According to him, the Belarusian TV is trying to display the current conflict between Belarus and Russia as Lukashenka’s turn to the West. And the West sympathises with Belarus.
Sannikau: We see that comments coming from the West prove that the friendship and dialogue with Lukashenka have brought results.
However, Mr. Sannikau notes that the Belarusian authorities use the liberalization as a mask. He reminded about arrested Mikalai Autuhovich who had been starving for 62 days and about the scandalous interview given by an American citizen Vladlena Furs who had served a sentence in Belarus. In the politician’s opinion, it is too early to speak about real indulgence.
Sannikau: It will be possible to discuss the liberalization in Belarus when we really feel that political repressions in Belarus may disappear.
The leader of the BNF Party Lyavon Barshcheuski commented on the recent events and claimed that BNF was against the CSTO and would like to see a normal border with Russia “that would be able to limit crimes and would be convenient for the economy”. In his opinion, the Belarusian authorities’ actions can only be explained by the trade with Russia.
Don’t Russian customs officers control and register Belarusian goods?
Russian customs officers do not perform the customs control and registration of goods imported to Russia from Belarus according to the common Belarusian-Russian trade agreement. The head of the analytical department of the Federal Customs Service of Russia Vladimir Ivin has claimed it.
Ivin has made an official statement about it and noted that procedures of customs registration and control are performed only with goods produces in the other states.
BelaPAN reminds that Alyaksandr Lukashenka charged the Border and Customs Committees with elaboration of suggestions concerning the introduction of border and customs control on the Russian border on June 13. He claimed that Russia had already started doing it.
Martynau urges Russia to stop using “non-market methods of competition”
The Belarusian Foreign Minister Syarhei Martnyau has urged Russia not to use “non-market methods of competition”. BelaPAN informs that he was speaking about the problems of Belarusian milk supplies to the Russian market.
Replying to journalists’ questions in Minsk on June 16, the head of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs claimed that a normal constructive interaction of experts in the field could be a way out of the current situation. Martynau stressed that the problem of milk supplies to the Russian market had to be solved as soon as possible.
“Milk quarrel” not to impede consultations about joining WTO
“The milk quarrel” between Russia and Belarus has not affected the consultations about the combined entrance of the Customs Union member-states to the World Trade Organization (WTO). The deputy head of the administration of the Russian Ministry for Economic Development Andrei Slepnyov has claimed it today, on June 16.
He noted that the consultations have been conducted since Monday. Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan are taking part in them.
RIA “Novosti” reminds that Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan have been trying to unify customs rules and tariffs to create the Customs Union. The administrations of the three states decided to join the WTO as a single customs territory a week ago.
Russia thinks that milk trade with Belarus is suspended for several weeks
The Russian Ministry for Economic Development thinks that all issues of Belarusian milk trade will be settled within the next few weeks.
The deputy head of the Ministry for Economic Development Andrei Slepnyov has claimed that the trade will be resumed after that. According to “Interfax”, the balance of milk supplies from Belarus to Russia has already been determined.
Slepnyov has informed that the supplies of cheese and curds from Belarus to Russia will be increased while the supplies of dried milk will be decreased.
Russians warned about threat Belarusian dairy products pose to their life and health
The Stavropol Territory Consumer Inspectorate has distributed a warning that Belarusian milk may pose a threat to people’s lives and health. The broadcasting company “Stavropol Territory” has informed about it.
According to the statement, there were violations made during the procedure of sanitary and epidemic control of Belarusian dairy products and that the permission to distribute them was given due to law violations. The permission has been suspended until a special order is pronounced. Inhabitants and visitors of Stavropol Territory have been asked to be careful in connection with it. People who will notice Belarusian dairy products in shops are asked to inform the local affiliate of the Russian Consumer Inspectorate about it.
Embassy: Belarusian delegation is authorized to conduct negotiations with Russia
The Belarusian delegation is authorized to conduct negotiations about milk supplies in Moscow. The Belarusian Embassy to Moscow has informed RIA “Novosti” about it today, on June 16.
The statement has been made in response to Russia’s intention to take a break in the negotiations with Belarus.
According to an employee of the Embassy, the delegation in Moscow is official and the government of the Republic of Belarus has authorized it to conduct the negotiations.
Let us remind you that the chief state sanitary inspector of Russia Gennadii Onishchenko claimed that Russia was going to take a break in the negotiations with Belarus to define the position of the official Minsk. According to him, public comments of Belarusian officials quoted by Belarusian mass media had made them doubt that the position of the delegation coincided with the position of the Belarusian government.
Will Belarusian milk undermine Ukrainian market?
Ukrainian state structures apprehend that rejected Belarusian milk supplies to Russia may be redirected to Ukraine. A Russian edition Gazeta.ru informs about it.
Georgia did the same in 2006: the wine forbidden in Russia was sent to Ukraine and won up to 55% of the market there.
The milk problem is even more complicated, claim specialists. According to them, Ukrainian enterprises have just managed to normalize their work in the Russian market after the notorious trade wars of 2006 and 2007.
However, Ukraine will find it difficult to refuse from the import of Belarusian dairy products due to political motives. Prime Minister Yuliya Timoshenko promised her Belarusian counterpart Syarhei Sidorski to develop trade and cancel limitations a few days ago.
Russia suspends milk supplies negotiations with Belarus
Russia has taken a break in the negotiations with Belarus concerning Belarusian dairy products supplies to the Russian market until Minsk’s position is clear. The head of the Russian consumer inspectorate and the head sanitary inspector of Russia Gennadii Onishchenko claimed it this Tuesday.
“The public comments of Belarusian officials we have received from the country’s press and comments of official mass media like “Soviet Byelorussia” have made us doubt that the position of the Belarusian delegation in Moscow coincides with the position of Belarusian officials. We are taking a break to avoid wasting our and their time and to define the position. It will depend on their explanations whether we should continue our work or not”, - said Onishchenko.
RIA “Novosti” informs that Gennadii Onishchenko has not managed to say when the negotiations were going to be resumed.
Onishchenko: Belarusian milk not to return to Russian market soon
Belarusian dairy products will not return to the Russian market soon. The head of the Russian consumer inspectorate Gennadii Onishchenko claimed it on Monday.
“It will not happen in a day or two, it will take a lot of time”, - RIA “Novosti” quotes Onishchenko.
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Moscow authorities do not have a grievance against quality of Belarusian dairy products
Belarusian producers supply products of good quality to Russia but they have to render their documentation in accordance with Russian standards. The head of the grocery department of Moscow Alexander Baburin has informed “Interfax” about it this Tuesday.
“It is wrong to play by your own rules on our territory”, - said the Moscow official.
He also noted that the information about Belarusian products being cheaper than Russian ones did not represent the facts.
If Russia does not buy milk, Belarus will turn it into alcohol
The director of the Institute of meat and milk industry Alyaksei Melyashenya has informed ERB that Belarus has equipment necessary for processing the milk Russia is refusing to buy.
The surplus of milk can be turned into casein that is well imported now or it can be dried – dried milk can be stored for up to 2 years. And this isn’t the limit – buttermilk can even be turned into alcohol, says Alyalksei Melyashenya.
Alyaksei Melyashchenya: “Buttermilk can be used to produce alcohol.But it is a bit more expensive than making it from grain”.
However, the director of the Institute of meat and milk industry hopes that it will be possible to settle the problem with Russia and to make alcohol with the help of the usual technology using grain.
More details will be available on ERB’s website soon
Ukraine is ready to increase import of Belarusian dairy products
The Ukrainian Ambassador to Belarus Igor Lihovoi has mentioned the high quality of Belarusian dairy products. According to him, Ukraine is ready to increase the import of Belarusian milk to match Ukrainians’ demand.
After Ukraine joined the World Trade Organization, its markets became more open, informed the Ambassador in an interview with “Interfax”. In his opinion, a lot depends on the correlation of quality and price and on advertising in the field of promotion of Belarusian dairy products in the Ukrainian market.
Commenting on the Belarusian-Russian milk conflict, Lihovoi noted that Ukraine was watching and assessing the situation.
He recalled that Ukrainian dairy enterprises had undergone a similar ordeal several years before. As a result, part of the goods, namely hard cheese, found its consumers in other markets – from the Western Europe to the Middle East and some of the goods returned to the Russian market after a few ceremonial functions due to insistent demands of consumers.
Opposition expresses opinion about “milk war”
The liberalization used as a mask is dangerous. Andrei Sannikau claimed it during a press conference of opposition leaders on June 16.
According to him, the Belarusian TV is trying to display the current conflict between Belarus and Russia as Lukashenka’s turn to the West. And the West sympathises with Belarus.
Sannikau: We see that comments coming from the West prove that the friendship and dialogue with Lukashenka have brought results.
However, Mr. Sannikau notes that the Belarusian authorities use the liberalization as a mask. He reminded about arrested Mikalai Autuhovich who had been starving for 62 days and about the scandalous interview given by an American citizen Vladlena Furs who had served a sentence in Belarus. In the politician’s opinion, it is too early to speak about real indulgence.
Sannikau: It will be possible to discuss the liberalization in Belarus when we really feel that political repressions in Belarus may disappear.
The leader of the BNF Party Lyavon Barshcheuski commented on the recent events and claimed that BNF was against the CSTO and would like to see a normal border with Russia “that would be able to limit crimes and would be convenient for the economy”. In his opinion, the Belarusian authorities’ actions can only be explained by the trade with Russia.
Don’t Russian customs officers control and register Belarusian goods?
Russian customs officers do not perform the customs control and registration of goods imported to Russia from Belarus according to the common Belarusian-Russian trade agreement. The head of the analytical department of the Federal Customs Service of Russia Vladimir Ivin has claimed it.
Ivin has made an official statement about it and noted that procedures of customs registration and control are performed only with goods produces in the other states.
BelaPAN reminds that Alyaksandr Lukashenka charged the Border and Customs Committees with elaboration of suggestions concerning the introduction of border and customs control on the Russian border on June 13. He claimed that Russia had already started doing it.
Martynau urges Russia to stop using “non-market methods of competition”
The Belarusian Foreign Minister Syarhei Martnyau has urged Russia not to use “non-market methods of competition”. BelaPAN informs that he was speaking about the problems of Belarusian milk supplies to the Russian market.
Replying to journalists’ questions in Minsk on June 16, the head of the Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs claimed that a normal constructive interaction of experts in the field could be a way out of the current situation. Martynau stressed that the problem of milk supplies to the Russian market had to be solved as soon as possible.
“Milk quarrel” not to impede consultations about joining WTO
“The milk quarrel” between Russia and Belarus has not affected the consultations about the combined entrance of the Customs Union member-states to the World Trade Organization (WTO). The deputy head of the administration of the Russian Ministry for Economic Development Andrei Slepnyov has claimed it today, on June 16.
He noted that the consultations have been conducted since Monday. Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan are taking part in them.
RIA “Novosti” reminds that Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan have been trying to unify customs rules and tariffs to create the Customs Union. The administrations of the three states decided to join the WTO as a single customs territory a week ago.
Russia thinks that milk trade with Belarus is suspended for several weeks
The Russian Ministry for Economic Development thinks that all issues of Belarusian milk trade will be settled within the next few weeks.
The deputy head of the Ministry for Economic Development Andrei Slepnyov has claimed that the trade will be resumed after that. According to “Interfax”, the balance of milk supplies from Belarus to Russia has already been determined.
Slepnyov has informed that the supplies of cheese and curds from Belarus to Russia will be increased while the supplies of dried milk will be decreased.
Russians warned about threat Belarusian dairy products pose to their life and health
The Stavropol Territory Consumer Inspectorate has distributed a warning that Belarusian milk may pose a threat to people’s lives and health. The broadcasting company “Stavropol Territory” has informed about it.
According to the statement, there were violations made during the procedure of sanitary and epidemic control of Belarusian dairy products and that the permission to distribute them was given due to law violations. The permission has been suspended until a special order is pronounced. Inhabitants and visitors of Stavropol Territory have been asked to be careful in connection with it. People who will notice Belarusian dairy products in shops are asked to inform the local affiliate of the Russian Consumer Inspectorate about it.
Embassy: Belarusian delegation is authorized to conduct negotiations with Russia
The Belarusian delegation is authorized to conduct negotiations about milk supplies in Moscow. The Belarusian Embassy to Moscow has informed RIA “Novosti” about it today, on June 16.
The statement has been made in response to Russia’s intention to take a break in the negotiations with Belarus.
According to an employee of the Embassy, the delegation in Moscow is official and the government of the Republic of Belarus has authorized it to conduct the negotiations.
Let us remind you that the chief state sanitary inspector of Russia Gennadii Onishchenko claimed that Russia was going to take a break in the negotiations with Belarus to define the position of the official Minsk. According to him, public comments of Belarusian officials quoted by Belarusian mass media had made them doubt that the position of the delegation coincided with the position of the Belarusian government.
Will Belarusian milk undermine Ukrainian market?
Ukrainian state structures apprehend that rejected Belarusian milk supplies to Russia may be redirected to Ukraine. A Russian edition Gazeta.ru informs about it.
Georgia did the same in 2006: the wine forbidden in Russia was sent to Ukraine and won up to 55% of the market there.
The milk problem is even more complicated, claim specialists. According to them, Ukrainian enterprises have just managed to normalize their work in the Russian market after the notorious trade wars of 2006 and 2007.
However, Ukraine will find it difficult to refuse from the import of Belarusian dairy products due to political motives. Prime Minister Yuliya Timoshenko promised her Belarusian counterpart Syarhei Sidorski to develop trade and cancel limitations a few days ago.
Russia suspends milk supplies negotiations with Belarus
Russia has taken a break in the negotiations with Belarus concerning Belarusian dairy products supplies to the Russian market until Minsk’s position is clear. The head of the Russian consumer inspectorate and the head sanitary inspector of Russia Gennadii Onishchenko claimed it this Tuesday.
“The public comments of Belarusian officials we have received from the country’s press and comments of official mass media like “Soviet Byelorussia” have made us doubt that the position of the Belarusian delegation in Moscow coincides with the position of Belarusian officials. We are taking a break to avoid wasting our and their time and to define the position. It will depend on their explanations whether we should continue our work or not”, - said Onishchenko.
RIA “Novosti” informs that Gennadii Onishchenko has not managed to say when the negotiations were going to be resumed.
Onishchenko: Belarusian milk not to return to Russian market soon
Belarusian dairy products will not return to the Russian market soon. The head of the Russian consumer inspectorate Gennadii Onishchenko claimed it on Monday.
“It will not happen in a day or two, it will take a lot of time”, - RIA “Novosti” quotes Onishchenko.
Photo by — ByMedia
