Azerbaijan and Georgia plan to build new checkpoint

Customs officials of Azerbaijan and Georgia have held a regular meeting, the State Customs Committee (SCC) of Azerbaijan said in a statement.

The meeting was conducted by the SCC deputy chair Shahin Bagirov and deputy head of the Revenue Service of the Georgian Finance Ministry Vakhtang Lashkaradze.

"The meeting was focused on discussion of the possibilities of reconstruction of the existing customs checkpoints Sadikhli and Mtikvari," abc. az cited the SCC as saying.

The sides also discussed the possibility of creation of a new customs checkpoint that, according to the sides, will have positive impact on improvement of transit potential of the region in the future.