June 22, 2005 - 08:21 AMT
RUSSIAN TRANSPORT MINISTRY TO ATTEND TO POSSIBILITY OF FERRY CROSSING FOR SUPPLYING ARMENIA WITH OIL
The Ministries of Transport of Russia and Armenia will attend the issue of using the ferry crossing for supplying Armenia with Russian oil as well as consider the prospects for attracting extra volume of goods including export, import and transit transportation via Caucasus-Poti railway ferry crossing, the protocol signed by RF Minister of Transport, Co-Chair of the Armenian-Russian Intergovernmental Committee on Economic Cooperation Igor Levitin and Secretary of the Security Council under the RA President, Defense Minister and Co-Chair of the Armenian-Russian Intergovernmental Committee Serge Sargsian, says. The discussion of the project is to be completed within a month. The issues referring to collection of indirect taxes in mutual trade as well as collection of surplus value tax while exporting natural gas and oil from Russia will be also considered.