Belarusian and Russian customs officers signed a memorandum of cooperation during the Ice Hockey World Championship
A Memorandum of Intent between the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation and the State Customs Committee of the Republic of Belarus on cooperation during the 2014 IIHF World Championship in Belarus, aimed at ensuring favorable conditions for the movement of goods across the state border and for individuals crossing it, was signed today in Novopolotsk, a BELTA correspondent reports.
As explained at the final press conference, answering a question from a BELTA correspondent, Chairman of the State Customs Committee of Belarus Alexander Shpilevsky, the customs services have thus defined points of interaction for the period of this important sporting event for the country. In the near future, similar documents will be signed with other neighboring countries of Belarus - Poland, Latvia, Ukraine.
Head of the Federal Customs Service of Russia Andrey Belyaninov added that customs officers have experience of joint work during large-scale international competitions, for example, during the 2012 UEFA European Championship. Similar work will be carried out during the World Hockey Championship in Belarus. "We will not cause any trouble for anyone," assured Andrey Belyaninov.
A meeting of the joint board of customs services of the member states of the Customs Union and the board of the Customs Committee of the Union State was held today in Novopolotsk. It was dedicated to a block of issues concerning the improvement of customs legislation regulating the procedure for providing preliminary information, the organization of information interaction between the customs services of Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan, and the application of the TIR Convention for the transportation of goods through the territory of the Customs Union countries.