Russia will lift restrictions on supplies of Turkish Iceberg salad, green leaf lettuce, zucchini, pumpkins and pepper on September 1, Russian Minister of Agriculture Alexander Tkachev said.
"This decision was made after specialists from Rosselkhoznadzor (federal sanitary surveillance department) inspected Turkish enterprises in May of this year," he said.
He noted that Russia, for its part, expects that its exporters of beef and poultry meat will get access to the Turkish market. "Lifting of restrictions must be mutual," RBK cited the minister as saying.
Earlier, Rosselkhoznadzor banned for phytosanitary consideration imports of Turkish tomatoes, pepper, pomegranates, aborigines, lettuce and Iceberg salad, zucchini and pumpkins.
