GUAM customs barriers will be overcome through ICT

Exchange of preliminary information about goods and vehicles passing through the borders of the GUAM member states, will be timely and reliable.

As stated in the official report (http://guam-organization.org/node/1461), an agreement is reached heads of department of information technology of customs bodies of Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova, at a recent meeting in Kiev.

The participants agreed to request the Secretariat to send a draft protocol of GUAM Member States for domestic approvals required for his signature, the document says.

GUAM was established in 1997 at the summit of EU leaders in Strasbourg, said countries that have territorial issues with Russia and her satellites. Azerbaijan has problems regarding Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding areas, Georgia - with unrecognized Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Moldova - an unrecognized Transnistria. Ukraine is still not resolved the problem of the presence of the Navy of the Russian Federation on the Crimean peninsula.

At the 2006 summit in Kiev interstate education renamed the "Organization for Democracy and Economic Development - GUAM."

The organization has strong ties, supported by resolutions from the United States, Japan, the European Union, Poland, Czech Republic, and the United Nations. - 17D-