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  • Azerbaijan Customs Officials Start Checking Documentation of Cargo

    CUSTOMS OFFICIALS OF AZERBAIJAN START CHECKING OF DOCUMENTATION OF
    CARGO DETAINED IN THE BORDER WITH GEORGIA


    TBILISI, DECEMBER 1. ARMINFO. Working group of the custom officials of
    Azerbaijan which started checking of documentation of cargo detained
    before in the Azerbaijani-Georgian border has arrived in Tbilisi
    Tuesday, TURAN was told in the Embassy of Azerbaijan in
    Georgia. According to the same source, the term of clarification and
    of the stay of the working group in Georgia are not known. "Check
    will last as long as it is necessary", noted the representative of the
    Embassy.

    According to TURAN, customs officials of Azerbaijan will check the
    documents for almost all detained cargo. If some of them are intended
    for Armenia they will not be allowed. This month the Azerbaijani side
    detained almost 900 cargo wagons going from central Asia to
    Georgia. The reason was the information that part of cargo went from
    Georgia to Armenia. Baku treats it as violation of the agreement with
    Georgia and demanded explanation from the official Tbilisi. The Head
    of the Georgian railway Onoprishvili admitted in fact that part of
    cargo was delivered to the Armenian border.

    Even in 1998 Baku prohibited transportation of cargo going to Armenia
    and from Armenia via the territory of Azerbaijan. Bilateral agreement
    between Baku and Tbilisi was signed last year.

    The Azerbaijani press noted more than once about the facts of delivery
    of cargo to Armenia via Azerbaijan. The Armenian press and officials
    did not conceal that Armenia bought through some false firms the Azeri
    goods, and first of all oil products. However, official Baku refuted
    it.

    According to informed sources, among cargo transported in transit via
    Azerbaijan to Georgia and then to Armenia there were strategic goods:
    oil products, food, cotton, products of machine building, various
    equipment and so on.
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