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Highest United Nations TIR bodies request Russia to stop breaching international law and withdraw its illegal restrictions on TIR guarantee
As United Nations TIR bodies had a series of meetings in Geneva last week further to the Russian Federal Customs Service’s (FCS RF) illegal decisions to impose additional guarantees for TIR operations to, from and across Russian territory, governments from contracting parties to the TIR Convention clearly confirmed the breach of international law by the FCS RF, and called for the immediate cancellation of the FCS RF’s decision.
This call was first supported by governmental delegations from the TIR Contracting Parties who strongly voiced their concerns at the WP.30*.
More importantly, the AC.2**, which is the highest decision-making body of the TIR Convention, clearly confirmed that all recent steps from FCS RF are “contrary to the commitments of the Russian Federation under the TIR Convention”.
In complete defiance of these calls from the international community, and in the absence of a final coordinated position of the Russian Government, the FCS RF decided unilaterally, without prior notice, to immediately further extend such restrictions to the large Volga region.
Despite the official confirmation earlier this summer from the UN body in charge of supervising the TIR Convention – the TIR Executive Board (TIRExB) – that this FCS RF decision was in breach with the UN TIR Convention hence with international law, the FCS RF nonetheless started introducing illegal restrictions on TIR guarantees step-by-step in the Far Eastern, Siberian and Ural Customs Directorate. Read more
Source: IRU
