Gagik Khachatryan hopes Armenia will have international class checkpoints in two years

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan held a working meeting with representatives of the RA customs service at Bagratashen checkpoint located at the Armenian-Georgian border.

A PanARMENIAN.Net correspondent reported from Bagratashen that the Armenian President displayed interest towards the reforms implemented in the country’s customs system.

“Frontier checkpoints in compliance with European and international standards are of keen importance for us. We want business circles as well as those citizens, who cross the border, see the reforms implemented on simplification of the current procedures,” Chairman of the RA State Revenues Committee Gagik Khachatryan told journalists.

According to him, these processes are in the focus of the Armenian President’s attention. Khachatryan added that relevant conditions have been created in Armenia to have international class checkpoints in the country.

He said that an international tender have been announced, in which countries with the best European experience will participate. Projects will be drafted based on their technical offers and then relevant construction works will be launched. Gagik Khachatryan expressed hope that similar checkpoints will be established in Armenia in two years. “Currently, the most important thing is that we have simplified the procedure for border crossing, and currently only three documents need to be submitted at checkpoints against previous 8 ones,” he said.

Khachatryan said that the new checkpoints will allow creating a common system of border management in Armenia. “All structures working at borders with business circles should operate within a common system to avoid additional interferences, i.e. different structures should not demand the same documents,” he said.