Minister of energy of the Russian Federation and Deputy Chairman of the Russian-Turkish intergovernmental Commission Alexander Novak said that Moscow and Ankara have reached an agreement in principle on the supply to the Russian market from December 1, tomatoes from Turkey.

"Fundamentally the decision on that now to prepare a legal base to December 1 to allow four companies to ship products in volume of 50 thousand tons of tomatoes," Novak quotes "RIA Novosti".

The Minister noted that it needs to make the necessary changes to the regulatory framework. "...and now such documents are agreed" — he added.

Russia banned the import of tomatoes and some other agricultural products from Turkey as from 1 January 2016. The measure was introduced after the Turkish air force in November 2015 shot down a Russian su-24 aircraft were in Syrian airspace. Subsequently, the list of prohibited importation into Russia of products was reduced as the normalization of relations with Turkey, but the ban on the import of tomatoes remains in force. In late September, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich made the lifting of the ban on import to Russia of Turkish tomatoes in 2017.

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