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    New body to make sure no freight gets to Armenia via Azerbaijan - TV

    ANS TV, Baku
    30 Nov 04

    [Presenter Aytan Safarova] The Azerbaijani State Customs Committee's
    delegation is in Tbilisi. The delegation is to verify the documents of
    the companies which own the freight in the wagons that have been
    stopped at the Boyuk Kasik station [on the Georgian-Azerbaijani
    border].

    [Correspondent] The damage inflicted on the other side by Azerbaijan's
    stricter control over the railway freight heading for Georgia is
    around five to six million dollars, (?Irma Stepnadze), the
    spokesperson of Georgia's Department of Railways, has told ANS TV. She
    said that the overall amount of losses is still being calculated. The
    temporary detention of freight wagons on the border has also inflicted
    some losses on Azerbaijan. The Azerbaijani State Railway Department
    did not disclose the amount but said that since this has to do with
    national interests, the losses are not that important.

    The Azerbaijani bodies, especially the State Customs Committee,
    started to seriously search the wagons from Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan
    and Russia which head for Georgia through Azerbaijan a month ago. The
    Baku government explains this by the subsequent transit of some of the
    commodities, particularly of oil, to Armenia. According to documents
    signed by the Georgian and Azerbaijani heads of states, commodities
    cannot be transited to a third country if this runs counter to
    Azerbaijan's interests. As for the commodities, they include oil,
    liquefied gas, grain and flour.

    [Passage omitted: minor details]

    Azerbaijan's ambassador to Georgia, Ramiz Hasanov, has said that the
    verification of companies by the Azerbaijani State Customs Committee's
    delegation will take until the end of the week.

    [Hasanov over telephone] This process will take some time, about three
    or four days. Some proposals will be made after that. They are
    investigating, verifying documents and figures. There is no proposal
    as yet. On the basis of their investigation we will make some
    proposals and will take some measures.

    When I say investigation I mean that they are checking what are those
    companies, what are the amounts and so on.

    [Correspondent] Despite suffering losses, the other side does not
    protest at the process.

    [Hasanov] There is no discontent at all. They understand and we cite
    some bilateral agreements. We have the right to do this.

    [Correspondent] During the talks the creation of a special body under
    the Azerbaijani embassy in Georgia was also discussed. The body is to
    include representatives of the Azerbaijani State Customs Committee,
    Azerbaijani State Railway Department and the State Oil Company of the
    Azerbaijani Republic and to oversee that freight transited from
    Azerbaijan to Georgia reaches its destination. The Tbilisi government
    has already agreed to the creation of the body, Hasanov said. The body
    is expected to start working soon.

    Ayaz Mirzayev, ANS.
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