Azerbaijan stated its decision not to join the Customs Union of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus, said the head of the State Customs Committee Aydin Aliyev. At a meeting with the Minister for Customs Cooperation Committee of the Eurasian Economic, Vladimir Goshin, he said that Azerbaijan will not join this organization.
The meeting was held during the session of the Council on Customs Cooperation and the Global Excise Summit in the headquarters of the World Customs Organization (WCO) in Brussels, according to the press service of State Customs Committee.
Customs union is a form of trade and economic integration of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia, which provides a single customs territory, within which customs duties and restrictions of economic nature are not applied.
Countries-members of the Customs Union apply a common customs tariff and other measures to regulate trading with third countries.
With regard to proposals to join the Customs Union, Azerbaijan has got such proposals from Moscow. In particular, last time the Russian State Duma Speaker, Sergey Naryshkin, declared in Baku in early July.-0-
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