DECREE ISSUED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION on Importing of Citrus and Some Other Agricultural Products to the Russian Federation

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 Russian Federation and Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation shall provide the necessary amount of transportation means for transport of the aforementioned goods to the Russian Federation.

Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation V. Chernomyrdin

7 November 1997

(Newspaper “Rossiyskaia Gazeta”, # 220, 14 November, 1997, p. 13)