“Our customs officers are already serving in those areas. Of course, the issue has not reached the main functions. That will happen in cases where a car crosses the Armenian border and there is a need to carry out customs control,” the chair of the RA State Revenue Committee Rustam Badasyan told reporters at a briefing in the parliament on December 1 in response to questions about if checkpoints have been set up and if Armenia provides customs services or not.
“But the customs officers are already deployed, and we are doing some work to provide additional working conditions for them in that sector. There are more adapted means to replace the buildings, which are now in the process of being purchased,” he said. According to him, “Now our customs officers are located in the same area where the employees of other state structures are.”
Badasyan found it difficult to say whether the Azerbaijanis will use our customs services. “Our deployment is not an end in itself. The government clarified the need for it. I do not consider it expedient to say where our customs officers are located and for what purpose. The fact that they are located already means that they carry out a customs function. If you mean that a car has crossed, then no, there have not been any cases.”
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