ArmInfo.Customs officers of the State Revenue Committee (SRC) of Armenia are already serving on the Goris-Kapan highway. Rustam Badasyan, Chairman of the State Revenue Committee, told journalists about this at the National Assembly.
"It has not yet reached the main customs functions, they will be in the event that there is a need for customs control of cars crossing the border of the Republic of Armenia. At present, certain work is underway to create additional working conditions for customs officers," Badasyan said. At this stage, customs officials are temporarily housed in the same buildings along with other government agencies, until the appropriate conditions are created for them.
The head of the SRC believes that the establishment of Armenian checkpoints on this section of the road is not an end in itself. At the same time, he found it difficult to say whether Azerbaijan will ever use this road or not. According to him, the fact of crossing the border by an Azerbaijani car has not been recorded to date.
When asked whether the Azerbaijanis performed customs functions on the Goris-Kapan road during this period, the chairman of the State Revenue Committee replied that the fact that they are on the highway already means that they are performing them.
On November 11 in the government, in an interview with journalists, Secretary of the RA Security Council Armen Grigoryan, referring to Nikol Pashinyan's statement that "if necessary, the Republic of Armenia will also establish customs and passport control points on the Goris-Kapan road," said that in general this is logical. That is, as the Secretary of the Security Council explained, the Armenian side will also establish customs posts to collect customs duties from passing Azerbaijani cars.