Moldova, Belarus to boost cooperation relations in customs sector

Chisinau, 1 November /MOLDPRES/- The customs authorities of Moldova and Belarus will boost cooperation in several areas of customs administration. Customs Director Vitalie Vrabie and his Belarusian counterpart, Yuri Senko, discussed in Minsk yesterday.

Officials have examined several topics on the most important areas of collaboration, including information exchange and procedural simplifications, including e-commerce.

According to the Customs Service, in Minsk the sides signed a bilateral cooperation plan in the vocational training, under which they are committed to organize trainings for the employees of both institutions. The actions for 2019-2022 also include exchanges of experience on the methodologies applied in carrying out specialized experiments and laboratory tests.

The Moldovan delegation visited the customs post at Minsk Airport, where representatives of the Moldovan Customs had the opportunity to know how the processing of international postal items, through which goods purchased online are delivered.

During the visit to Belarus, members of the Customs Service delegation will go to the customs offices of the Grodno regional office, deployed at the border with Poland, to see control when crossing the border between an EU member state and a non-EU member state.

(Reporter N. Sandu, editor M. Jantovan)