Iran and Azerbaijan have excahnged a row over the queuing of Iranian trucks on the Azerbaijani border check point bound to Russia.
On October 18, Seyed Jalil Jalalifar, member of the board of the Iran-Russia joint chamber of commerce complained about Azerbaijan’s “lack of cooperation” over Iran’s exports to Russia. “For this reason, a large number of trucks are queuing can be seen and we even have witnessed queues of 10 km in Astara.”
“Up to 80 percent of our exports to Russia are food and agricultural products, most of them cross the Astara border. In this regard, due to the events that happened in the northwest, we are facing a series of lack of cooperation of the Azerbaijani government,” Jalalifar said.
The Azerbaijan State Customs Service reported in its website that the queues on the border check point had to do with the problem experienced in the computer system on the Iranian side on October 15-16.
The spokesman for the State Customs Service, Natiq Akhundov, told BBC Azerbaijani on October 19 that there were no problem on the Azerbaijani side.
