Date : 20/06/2012
CAIRO, June 20 (KUNA) -- The 22nd meeting of the Committee of the Arab
Customs Union kicked off here on Wednesday at the Secretariat General of the
League of Arab States headquarters, and was presided by Egypt and participated
by experts and representatives of customs services in Arab states.
In press statements, Tamer Abdulaziz, head of the meeting, director of
regional agreements at Egypt's Ministry of Commerce and Industry, said that
this committee is concerned mainly with preparations and taking necessary
measures to establish the groundwork for the Union of the Arab Customs in
accordance with political and economic resolutions and recommendations of
previous Arab summits.
Abdulaziz stressed importance of this meeting since it discusses several
seminal issues, including the special study on ways of distributing customs
outcomes among member states under the framework of the Union of the Arab
Customs.
He noted that participants in this meeting decided to include some issues
into the study in order to fully benefit from them, pointing out that they
have also agreed on importance of establishing a road map for the committees'
work in order to review what has been accomplished in the past. (end)
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