BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 6. Employees of the State Customs Service of Turkmenistan held a meeting with an expert of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) Shageldy Sultanmamedov, Trend reports via Business Turkmenistan news agency.
During the meeting, the parties discussed the ongoing work on the transition to paperless technologies in the system of customs procedures.
Employees of the Customs Service of Turkmenistan have completely switched to electronic customs declaration. This became possible as a result of the integrated system ASYCUDA WORLD (Automated system for customs data), developed by (UNCTAD) and simplifying the verification of documents at customs.
The program was implemented within the framework of the agreement on technical cooperation between the State Customs Service of Turkmenistan and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), as well as with the active assistance of UNDP in Turkmenistan.