ARMENIAN PRESIDENT URGES CRACKDOWN ON SMUGGLING
Mediamax news agency
12 Apr 06
Yerevan, 12 April: Armenian President Robert Kocharyan held a meeting
today with the head of State Customs Committee, Armen Avetisyan. They
discussed the committee’s activity in last three months and the fight
against smuggling.
Armen Avetisyan told the president that customs duties collected in
the first quarter of 2006 had totalled 31.5bn drams which was 400m
drams more than planned.
The two men also discussed the recent agreement with Georgia on the
closure of the Bagratashen border market.
In this connection, Kocharyan instructed to draw a map of all transit
routes used by smugglers and establish full control over these routes
as soon as possible till the establishment of a relevant border zone.