2024-06-27 10:09:22
Minister of Financial system Vahan Kerobyan assures that they’re working with Russian companions each day to resolve the issue of queues of vans on the Lars checkpoint as quickly as potential.
“All European locations, which used to come back by way of the territory of Belarus and Ukraine, now need to enter Russia by way of Turkey and Georgia, due to this, there was a really massive site visitors jam. Nevertheless, it’s clear that it’s a very tough drawback for exporters, and we’re working in a number of instructions to ease this burden,” Kerobyan mentioned in a dialog with journalists on the Nationwide Meeting.
He reminded that from June 15, the ferry communication between Georgia and Russia will likely be operational, which can enable to considerably lighten the load. The RA authorities allotted about 2.5 billion drams for the subsidy for the following 6 months.
“I had a gathering with Russian colleagues final week. Collectively, we now have deliberate to fulfill on June 11 in Higher Lars as effectively, to know collectively what alternatives we now have to additional speed up the capability of Higher Lars. I believe that with our every day work regime, we will considerably ease this rigidity at first of the season,” the Minister of Financial system famous.
Regardless of the problems, in response to Kerobyan, the expansion of exports from Armenia was 20 p.c in April, and the export of non-mineral merchandise elevated.
As for the opportunity of holding the EAEU cargoes individually, Kerobyan mentioned that the negotiations are nonetheless ongoing, they see some optimistic developments in that path, however they haven’t but reached a remaining optimistic outcome.