State Customs Committee: trade turnover growth between Azerbaijan and Georgia due to good relations

Azerbaijan, Baku, 22 April / Trend A.Akhundov / The trade turnover between Azerbaijan and Georgia is growing is a testament to the development of relations between the two countries and in particular between customs administrations, the head of the State Customs Committee Aydin Aliyev said at a meeting with his Georgian counterpart in Baku. "If in 2009, the mutual trade turnover was at around $450 million, in 2012, it reached $700 million and in the first quarter of 2013 exceeded $200 million," Aliyev said. According to him, Azerbaijan and Georgia are cooperating successfully within major international projects such as Baku-Tbilisi-Kars and Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan. According to the head of the Customs Department of Georgia's Ministry of Finance Lasha Khuchishvili, economic and cultural relations between the two countries are at a high level. "This is my first visit to Azerbaijan and it will contribute to the development of bilateral relations," Khuchishvili said. Do you have any feedback? Contact our journalist at agency@trend.az