DECREE
ISSUED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE
In order to meet the needs of the population of
the Russian Federation in citrus and some other agricultural products and with
a view of rendering humanitarian social-economic assistance through the
international foundation “Rossootech” to fellow compatriots living in Abkhazia,
(Georgia), the Government of the Russian Federation decrees:
1. To entitle the Border Service of the Russian
Federation, the State Custom Committee of the Russian Federation, Ministry of
Transport of the Russian Federation and Ministry of Railway Network of the Russian Federation
with a right to allow export into the
Russian Federation from Abkhazia, (Georgia) in November-December 1997 and
January-March 1998 of 10 000 tons of mandarin, 500 ton of forest nut, 2 000 ton
of tea, 300 ton of bay leaf, as well as 1,5 million liters of fruit juice, jam,
and other citrus products.
The Federal Border Service of the Russian
Federation, the State Custom Committee of the Russian Federation, Ministry of
Health Care of the Russian Federation, Ministry of Agriculture and Food
Products of the Russian Federation and other relevant Federal organs of the
Executive branch shall secure strict border, custom, sanitary-quarantine,
photo-sanitary and other types of control on the state border of the Russian
Federation, in the places of registration of the aforementioned commodities or
upon the consent of the counterparts, in the places of shipment of the
aforementioned products.
2. Ministry of the Railway Network of the
Chairman of the Government of the
(Newspaper “Rossiyskaia Gazeta”, # 220, 14 November,
1997, p. 13)