Baku, Azerbaijan, Feb. 23
By Azad Hasanli - Trend:
Post-Soviet countries are studying Azerbaijan's experience of information technologies (IT) use in customs sphere, an official with the country's State Customs Committee told Trend.
"We have already received the appropriate appeals from Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Russia," Chief of Main Department for Activity Assessment and Development Programs of the State Customs Committee, customs service Major-General Igbal Babayev said.
"In addition, the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) asked us to organize trainings on modernization of customs services in Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan," he added.
Azerbaijan also shares its experience of IT use in customs sphere within the framework of the Advisory Committee of the United Nations Network of Experts for Paperless Trade in Asia and the Pacific, said Babayev.
"We often participate in the meetings in Bangkok and help countries of Asia and the Pacific in the use of IT in customs offices," he noted.
"Azerbaijan is among the 11 countries that are considered experts in this field," said Babayev adding that the help within the Committee's framework is purely recommendatory in nature.
During the preparation of a methodology for improving IT in the customs field, Azerbaijan also studied the experience of Singapore, South Korea, Japan, the US and several European countries, according to Babayev.
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