Azerbaijan, Baku / Trend corr I. Khalilova / The Azerbaijan State Customs Committee (SCC) submitted the draft Protocol on Cooperation and Mutual Aid to the Incomes Service of the Ministry of Finance due to coordination, the Chairman of the SCC, Aydin Aliyev, said on September 27.
During the meeting of Azerbaijani-Georgian intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation held in Baku on 27 September it was decided to accelerate the coordination of the items in the Protocol.
For the time being the joint activities of both countries customs bodies is implemented on the basis of the agreement in force on customs cooperation.
According to Aliyev, the new agreement envisages improvement of the mechanism preventing transiting of cargos via the two countries to a third country with achieved agreements ignoring due to the prejudice of national interest of each country.
The necessity to define the status of the check-points located on the Georgia-Azerbaijan border, as well as closer cooperation between customs and border services, was indicated at the meeting of the commission.