The regular meeting of the Joint Board of the Customs Services of the Customs Union (CU) member countries was convened on February 12 and 13 in Navapolatsk, Belarus.

An Armenian State Revenue Committee (SRC) delegation, led by SRC Chairman Gagik Khachatryan, also attended the session, and as an observer.

Representatives from the customs services of Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine also participated in the meeting as observers.

The discussants conferred on the supervision of the general customs procedures, and customs cooperation.

It was also decided to hold the next session of the joint board of the CU countries’ customs services in Armenia, in the second quarter of the current year, and within the framework of the country’s process of integration into the Customs Union accession.

Following the talks that were held on September 3, 2013 in Moscow between Armenian and Russian Presidents Serzh Sargsyan and Vladimir Putin, Sargsyan had announced that Armenia plans to join the Customs Union and subsequently engage in the formation of the Eurasian Economic Union. In December 2013, the “road map” for Armenia’s accession to the Customs Union was adopted. And in January of this year, the Government of Armenia approved the action plan for the implementation of this “road map.” Aside from Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan likewise are members in the Customs Union.