CIS to set up vegetable 'green corridor'
KYIV. September 23. KAZINFORM The CIS countries are set to build up a 'green corridor' at the vegetable market. The decision was taken at a meeting of the CIS intergovernmental agricultural council in Kyiv on 22 September, BelTA has learnt.
Accoridng to BelTA, the meeting participants considered the issue of setting up the relevant commission to coordinate the vegetable market development in the CIS. This body will monitor the transportation of these goods on the territory of the CIS member states. The commission will work out the relative program and submit it to the intergovernmental council by December 2011.
Besides, by the end of the year the sides are expected to finalize and sign an agreement on uniform rules at the CIS sugar market.
The meeting participants highlighted the forecast production indicators and food consumption, logistics and conservation of vegetables and fruit in the CIS.
Attending the meeting were agriculture ministers on behalf of Belarus and Ukraine Mikhail Rusyi and Mykola Prysiazhnyuk as well as representatives of Kazakhstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, and the CIS Executive Committee. According to the decision of the members of the council, Ukraine takes over its presidency in the council from Belarus. The next, intermediate, session will take place in Kyiv and the rotation one - in Moscow.
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