ARMENIAN PRESIDENT, CHIEF OF RA CUSTOMS COMMITTEE DISCUSS SMUGGLING CONTROL

Arka News Agency, Armenia
April 12 2006

Yerevan, April 12. /ARKA/. RA President Robert Kocharyan and Chief
of the RA customs Committee Armen Avetisyan discussed issues of
smuggling control.

The sides discussed the quarterly results and the execution of
instructions issued at the President-chaired meeting early in 2006.

Avetiryan reported that the measures planned for the 1st quarter
of 2006 were fulfilled. According to him, customs fees exceeded the
planned AMD 31.1bln level by AMD 400mln.

The sides singled out a recently signed Armenian-Georgian agreement
on the closing of the Bagrateshen market among the smuggling control
measures. Kocharyan issued instructions on cartographic surveys of
all transit ways that may be used by smugglers and establishment of
full control before the border zone is formed ($1-451.41).