The Lars checkpoint is closed again and RA exporters are facing unsolvable problems at the checkpoint, what is the reason? Minister of Economy Vahan Kerobyan was interested in “Hayastan” faction deputy Tadevos Avetisyan.
He asked to speak clearly, whether the problem mainly refers to a certain technical or sanitary-hygienic condition of exports from Armenia, as stated in the statement of “Rosselkhoznadzor”.
“Or, if the problem is political and not economic, we should talk about that too,” he said.
Minister of Economy Vahan Kerobyan mentioned that during the past year there were less than 40 cases when the relevant bodies of the Russian Federation returned the goods exported from the Republic of Armenia. “In other words, the state of our state bodies cannot be considered bad,” he said.
Referring to the statement of “Rosselkhoznadzor”, the minister mentioned that they initiated a discussion with Russian partners this week.
“The Ministry of Economy and our partners of the Eurasian Economic Commission, Minister of Internal Market Protection Mr. Simonyan and other partners have initiated a discussion that should take place this week, where we will try to understand what has changed in the regulations with our Russian partners. which caused such a change in statistics,” said Kerobyan.
The Minister of Economy noted that the publication of “Rosselkhoznadzor” and the information available with it are being thoroughly studied by the relevant authorities.
To remind, “Rosselkhoznadzor” announced today that it recorded a sharp increase in the supply of crop products infected with pests from Armenia.