"A country with no veterinary and phytosanitary services' specialists at the border has no future as far as animal diseases and human food safety is concerned," Jonas Milius told BNS.
Milius was informed about such an idea being discussed in Russia on Thursday when he met with Yevgeny Nepoklonov, the deputy head of the Russian veterinary service, in Kybartai, where a veterinary checkpoint was opened.
This is the first veterinary checkpoint at Lithuania's border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad through which live animals can be transported.
