OREANDA-NEWS. Belarus has fulfilled all the recommendations by the Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) to improve control over the quality of foodstuffs exported to Russia, Belarus' Prime Minister Mikhail Myasnikovich told reporters on Friday.

Belarus' food processing companies have intensified lab control over their product, Myasnikovich said. Now they take samples from each shipment of goods and test them for quality, the premier explained. Besides, around 150 specialists will monitor incoming raw materials, the quality of end products and the volume of product output.

There will be no concessions: Myasnikovich emphasized that those who allow any violations will be brought to account. Now Russian and Belarusians specialists are busy checking each and very company of those 23, which received an export ban in Russia, Myasnikovich said. He reckons the aforementioned companies will soon resume food exports to Russia.

Myasnikovich refuted all allegations by Russia's authorities accusing Minsk of abusing the agreement on the transit of goods to third countries. All transit cargoes bound for third states across Russia get examined by Belarus and channelled to the designated terminals in Russia, the Belarusian premier said.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said December 3 that Belarus cannot allow the introduction of a ban on transit of food supplies from the West to Russia.

"If Russia does not want any goods to go through it by transit to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, China, Mongolia, Turkey, then it should ban this transit," Lukashenko said. "We cannot ban transit of goods to other countries through the Belarusian territory. This is a violation of all the norms of the international law," Lukashenko said.

Russia's phytosanitary authorities announced November 30 that consignments of foodstuffs from Belarus bound for third states across Russia must be examined at Russian checkpoints before being allowed through.