BRUSSELS: The Director General of Kuwait Customs, Khaled Abdullah Al-Saif, is in the Belgian capital accompanied by two other custom officials to take part in the meetings of the World Custom Organization (WCO) which is based in Brussels.
Al-Saif, speaking to KUNA, noted that WCO holds regular meetings and consultations with customs organizations around the world.
“We in Kuwait customs attend such important meetings which concern us to develop our own work,” Al-Saif added.
There are two meetings this week at the WCO, one is linked with the Advance Passenger Information, Name Record of passengers arriving at airports, which begins Tuesday.
“This is very important for us, because we are in the process of implementing this in the coming days. We are interested to know where they have reached in this program,” Al-Saif said.
The second meeting is on the International Convention on the Simplification and Harmonization of Customs procedures, known as Kyoto Convention which was done at Kyoto on 18 May 1973 and entered into force on 25 September 1974.
The WCO Council adopted the revised Kyoto Convention in June 1999 as the blueprint for modern and efficient Customs procedures in the 21st century.
Al-Saif mentioned that Kuwait recently has become a member of this revised convention and the Kuwaiti custom officials are attending this meeting which begins Thursday to learn what are the latest developments regarding this convention.
“Kuwait especially this year has made a great progress in all its functions and these issues concern us for our further development and progress,” said the head of the Kuwait customs,” Al-Saif said.
The Kuwaiti official noted that there is a strong cooperation between Kuwait customs and the WCO and as well with the US customs.
Al-Saif added Kuwait to sign an agreement on exchange of information with the US customs later this year.
