2024-04-14 20:48:54
In the past few days, only 3-4 Armenian trucks have entered the Russian Federation, I know that a vehicle was denied entry to the Russian Federation yesterday as well, former Minister of Transport, Communications and Information Technologies of the Republic of Armenia Ashot Hakobyan, who was the first to do so a few days ago, told Pastinfo. warn about banning the entry of Armenian goods to the Russian Federation through Upper Lars.
To the observation that yesterday the Ministry of Economy announced that from December 2 the customs checkpoint of Upper Lars is open for all types of motor vehicles, including trucks transporting perishable agricultural products, Hakobyan responded that the wording “Lars is open” is manipulative. because Lars has never been closed. “It is another matter that non-compliance with phytosanitary standards is cited as a reason. Who said or when did they say that Lars was closed for perishable agricultural products, it has always been open, maybe due to weather conditions, it was closed for 1-2 days, but this was not the main problem. I don’t know if that problem has been solved or not, I know that there were returning trucks yesterday.”
Hakobyan informed that 2 trucks of his rose exporting company were returned in those days. On the same day, they recalled another truck before it reached Lars.
“After that, we didn’t send any more cars, it was pointless. Only today we sent another truck, but it has not reached Bagratashe yet. We have subjected the cargo to laboratory examination, and it will be examined in Bagratashen as well.”
Hakobyan said that the reason for banning the entry of trucks in Lars was the presence of insects. “There are insects in flowers, there is a permissible limit, for example, when we brought seedlings from Holland, there were various types of mites and other insects in them, but we eliminated them. Moreover, there are also useful insects in them that eliminate harmful ones. When the flowers are waved in Lars, the driver does not participate in that process, nor does he see what is happening, they take the sample themselves, then they come and say that it did not pass. But I don’t know what they are checking, in whose presence they are checking,” he added, emphasizing that only 3 employees work in the greenhouses to detect insects, all measures are taken to eliminate them.
“We exported for 3 years before and never had such a situation. Even now, when they opened it for inspection, they were impressed by both the appearance and the packaging. We thought that they would allow us to pass, but no, they turned us back. As a result, the company suffered a loss of approximately 15-20 million drams during the past 10 days. Now we are waiting, let’s see if the car will pass this time or not,” said Hakobyan.