The meeting between the CEO of the Federal Agency on Technical Regulating and Metrology (GOST R) Anton Shalaev and the Chairman of the State Committee on Standards, Consumer and Technical Supervision of the Republic of Abkhazia Narsou Sangulia was devoted to the matters of partnership and bilateral cooperation in the field of standardization, metrology and conformity assessment.
The Russian Delegation comprised of the representatives of the GOST R Central Office, employees of GOST R subordinated organizations such as the Russian Standardization Institute, the Federal Budgetary Institution “State Regional Center for Standardization, Metrology and Testing in Krasnodar region” and trade representative of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Abkhazia Zalina Cobesova.
The agenda of the meeting was the following:
- matters of informational cooperation;
- assistance to the State Committee on Standards, Consumer and Technical Supervision of the Republic of Abkhazia on familiarization with the activities of state bodies of the Russian Federation;
- issues of organization of training workshops on technical regulation for the employees of the State Committee on Standards, Consumer and Technical Supervision of the Republic of Abkhazia.
The consensus on provision of the access to the database of relevant Russian standards for the Abkhazian Party was achieved according to the results of the above-mentioned meeting.
CEO of GOST R Anton Shalaev noted that the goals of these two agencies were aimed at strengthening trade and economic cooperation between the Republic of Abkhazia and the Russian Federation. Anton Shalaev also highlighted that last Autumn the Memorandum of Understanding was signed between these two agencies and it was directed at practical implementation of the scheduled Plan of harmonization of the provisions in the field of standardization, metrology and conformity assessment of the Republic of Abkhazia and the requirements and norms of the Russian Federation and the Eurasian Economic Union.
Narsou Sangulia, the Chairman of the State Committee on Standards, Consumer and Technical Supervision of the Republic of Abkhazia, highlighted that this meeting was very fruitful for the discussion of relevant matters between the two countries in the field of standardization and metrology.
Beside that, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Abkhazia Aleksandr Ankvab and the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Abkhazia Beslan Dzhopua carried out a working meeting with the GOST R Delegation. Aleksandr Ankvab concluded that trade and economic turnover between Abkhazia and Russia should increase in the long run due to joint coordinated cooperation of the two Countries.