Belarus to resume dairy exports to Russia shortly - minister

MOSCOW, June 17 (RIA Novosti) - Belarus will soon resume exports of its dairy products to Russia, which banned them earlier this month over health concerns, the country's agriculture minister said on Wednesday.

"Movement of dairy products toward the Belarusian-Russian border would be restored shortly," Sergei Shapiro said after talks with Russia's chief sanitary official, Gennady Onishchenko.

The ban on Belarus's dairy exports triggered an angry reaction in Minsk, with President Alexander Lukashenko boycotting a security summit in Moscow last Sunday and the country warning it could toughen customs controls on its border with Russia.