“It’s not politics, it’s our own mistakes. For example, Russia has said officially that it would not talk with each individual company. It would only communicate with the associations representing interests of all the exporters. Meanwhile, our exporters seem in no rush to join in strong organizations. Each segment has dozens of non-governmental organizations as its representatives. Such bodies are sometimes even established by individual companies and such associations have different approaches. We, as representatives of Lithuania’s business, do not know which of their approaches to follow, either. It’s nothing less than madness,” Jonas Milius said in an interview to the Verslo Žinios business daily.
Dairy companies were an exception, he added.
Last week, Russia lifted a two-year ban on imports of breeding pigs from Lithuania.
Lithuania hopes that restrictions on exports of its chilled meat to Russia could be lifted as well in September. It also hopes that Russia will lift a ban on exports of live pigs, which has been in place since June 2011 after the discovery of outbreaks of classical swine fever in the district of Kaunas.
