OREANDA-NEWS. April 01, 2010. This was announced by the first deputy chairman of the Russian government on Wednesday following the meeting with the Prime Minister of Moldova Vladimir Filat. Igor Shuvalov said that to date, 39 Moldovan wine companies have the right to supply their products to Russia. He stressed that there are still some unresolved issues, barriers to supply of Moldovan wine and cognac production to Russia, but they will be solved soon, so that Moldovan wine companies can work in Russia transparently and without discrimination. Igor Shuvalov also expressed Russia’s interest to cooperate with Moldova in the field of energy and other spheres. Igor Shuvalov said that he arrived in Chisinau on behalf of the leadership of Russia within the frameworks of the tour to CIS countries, which he makes as the chairman of the CIS Economic Council and the national coordinator of Russia on CIS Affairs.

After a visit to Moldova, Igor Shuvalov will visit Ukraine and Belarus. It can be reminded that earlier Chisinau and Moscow have agreed that in I quarter 2010 six additional customs terminal for the supply of Moldovan wines will be opened in Russia. As the Prime Minister of Moldova Vladimir Filat has informed before, according to the agreements reached with the Russian side at the end of November 2009, the first two of six new terminals should have been opened in Bryansk and St. Petersburg till the end of December 2009, but for some technical reasons it had not been done. It was assumed that all six new customs terminals will be opened in Russia in I quarter of 2010.

The terminals will be located in Bryansk, St. Petersburg, Kaluga, Orel, Taganrog and Krasnodar. Currently, all Moldovan wine production is exported to Russia through a "single window" - a terminal in Orekhovo-Zuevo (Moscow Region). As the Minister of Agriculture and Food Industry of Moldova Valeriu Cosarciuc stressed, opening of the new terminals will reduce transportation costs and more than double the monthly sales volume of the Moldovan wine production in Russia - from USD 3 million up to USD 6.8 million.