Russia and Kazakhstan continue joint customs control experiment
KOSTANAY. July 31. KAZINFORM /Petr Plakhotnikov/ Kazakh and Russian authorized representatives of custom and boarder services held bilateral meeting at Kairak (Kostanay region) and Bugristoye (Chelyabinsk region) customs stations on July 28-29, 2009; Kazinform reports.
According to Head of press-service of the Kostanay Regional Customs Control Department Gulvira Akhmetbekova the issues of on prolongation of the experiment on practical development of elements of the joint customs control.
The participants considered the aspects of further Kazakhs-Russian near boarder cooperation.
Following the results of the meeting the sides signed protocols, coordinated draft project of the interstate agreement on cooperation in joint control at the Kazakhstan-Russian boarder. The agreement is expected to reduce legal formalities and to prolong control as well as to rise its effectiveness.
"Taking into consideration the fact that different types of control are held at the boarder of Kazakhstan and Russia such as sanitary-epidemiological, transport and veterinary-phytosanitary ones, the agreement regulates the order of joint actions of these services" , - she added.