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By Kamila Aliyeva

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree on lifting of some restrictions on Turkish food supplies, according to the document posted on the government’s website on June 2, TASS reported.

"The decree of the government dated November 30, 2015 specified a list of agricultural products, primary produce and food originated from the Turkish Republic restricted to be supplied to Russia starting January 1, 2016. The signed decree removes frozen parts of carcasses, by-products of dunghill-hens and turkeys, fresh and refrigerated cucumbers and cornichons, fresh apples, peaches, grapes, wild strawberries and strawberries from the previous list," the note to the document said.

Besides, the ban has been removed on certain operations and services to be provided to organizations under the Turkish jurisdiction or controlled by Turkish nationals and organizations.

Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich informed that consultations on the supply of tomatoes from Turkey to Russia will be conducted until the end of summer.

"I think that the talks will last during the summer, we may reach an agreement. But I would not expect very high volumes of supplies, they will be rather limited if we reach an agreement," he added.

The Russian-Turkish trade has been facing significant difficulties since 2016 when Russia introduced a food embargo against Turkey in response to the downing of a Russian warplane over Syria. In October 2016, the Russian government approved the resolution allowing Turkey to supply mandarins, oranges, peaches and nectarines, apricots and plums to Russia.

Many other restrictions have been recently removed in accordance with agreements reached with Russia following the results of the talks between Turkish Prime minister Binali Yildirim and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev in Istanbul.

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