Chairman of the State Customs Committee, Colonel General of the Customs Service, Safar Mekhtiev, met with a delegation led by the regional BP president in Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey Gary Jones.
The State Committee was informed by Haqqin.az that S. Meakhtiev spoke about the work done by BP for the development of the Azerbaijan oil sector.
“Today’s reforms in the customs authorities under the leadership of President Ilham Aliyev not only ensure the economic security of Azerbaijan, but also contribute to the improvement and development of the business environment,” Safar Mekhtiev said, adding transparency, customs procedures are simplified and legislative is consistently improved. Base.
S. Meakhtiev spoke about the successes achieved in recent years both in the fiscal sphere and in the fight against smuggling, especially the illegal traffic of drugs.
The Chairman of the State Customs Committee emphasized that today customs control is carried out at all customs and payables using the latest equipment. New projects are being implemented to increase the bandwidth of border checkpoints. Azerbaijani customs has achieved great success in the field of information technology. Safar Mekhtiev announced new projects implemented in this direction recently.
Safar Mehtiev noted the influence of the Green Corridor system on business development, easy and quick conducting trade operations, further improvement of business environment, providing transparency, easy implementation of international trade, increasing the export potential of Azerbaijan.
Guests presented a presentation about electronic information systems of the GTK.
Speaking about the exclusive role of the customs authorities of Azerbaijan in the implementation of large -scale projects implemented by the company, Gary Jones noted that cooperation with the customs system of Azerbaijan is at a high level, spoke about the further prospects of these long -standing business relations. Jones said that he was impressed by the achievements of the Azerbaijani customs, especially in the field of information technology, expressed confidence that these successes will continue.
At the end of Safar Mehtiev awarded Gary Jones and BP Vice President for Communications and International Relations in the Caspian region of Bakhtiyar Aslanbeyli, the jubilee of the 30th anniversary of the State Customs Committee of Azerbaijan.