Baku, Azerbaijan, Mar. 3
By - Trend:
Cooperation development of GUAM countries in the field of transport and trade will be discussed in Baku, GUAM Secretary General Valeri Chechelashvili told Trend Mar. 3.
The meeting of the Steering Committee on Transport and Trade Facilitation will be held May 15-16, according to Chechelashvili.
"This is a very important meeting at the level of customs agencies and deputy heads of border agencies," he said. "The agreement on prior electronic avowal of goods will be signed between the customs services during the event."
Post-Soviet countries established GUAM in 1997 during a summit of the EU countries in Strasburg.
In 1999, Uzbekistan joined GUAM but left it four years later.
In 2006, the first summit of this format held in Kiev decided to declare GUAM an international organization with a new name: GUAM Organization for Democracy and Economic Development.
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