Moscow, July 26 (Interfax) - Belarusian Deputy Agriculture and Food Minister Nadezhda Kotkovets has denied there are food shortages in Belarus and has claimed that people in her country can buy anything they need.
"The policy of saturating the consumer market, including the Belarusian food market, is stable, balanced and well-considered, so that the consumer should have everything he needs and in sufficient quantities, and that he should be able to acquire what he needs," Kotkovets told reporters in Moscow on Tuesday.
"It is a very stable, very well-considered policy, both as regards the saturation of the market and as regards pricing," she added.
She denied there were lines in stores.
"There are some questions" as regards pricing for imported goods, but prices for Belarusian goods are "stable and well-considered," she said.
Belarus’ Economics Ministry has approved a list of socially important goods and regulates prices for them. Food makes up 60% of the list. "So let me say once again that the situation is under control. We have no glaring disproportions in our country," Kotkovets said.
