OREANDA-NEWS. The Eurasian economic commission will consider Russia's request to stop transit of sanctions-hit food via its territory to Kazakhstan and third countries, Alexei Bogdanov, head of the foreign economic activity department at the Agriculture and Food Ministry, told on Tuesday.

"This request of the Russian Federation is within Eurasian economic commission's competence. That is why the issue will be considered in the fields of the commission," he said.

Russia's veterinary and phytosanitary watchdog has asked Belarus' Department of Veterinary and Food Control to halt the transit of food that Russia has prohibited to Kazakhstan and third countries from November 30 until the issue with Belorussian supplies is resolved.

The watchdog has already imposed an import ban on meat and dairy products supplies of eight Belarusian companies from November 26 as their products do not meet Russian requirements. A delegation of Belarusian Agriculture and Food Ministry has left for Russia to negotiate and the issue is likely to be resolved soon, Bogdanov said.

The veterinary service also may ban imports of plant products from Bosnia and Herzegovina if the country does not explain a sharp increase in recent fruit supplies, the regulator said. The watchdog also banned meat products from Montenegro for an alleged illegal reexport of banned food from the E.U. on November 18.

Earlier in November, it banned pork imports from Canada due to the presence of growth stimulant ractopamine, prohibited in the Customs Union, in the supplies. In August, Russia banned imports of beef, pork, poultry, fish, cheese, dairy products, fruit and vegetables from Australia, Canada, Norway, the U.S. and the E.U. for one year to retaliate Western sanctions.