Azeri vessels allowed to navigate in Russia

Russian government has approved the proposal by Russian Transport Ministry to allow for the passage of Azeri cargo vessels along Russia's internal routes of Astarkhan-Rostov and Astarkhan-St. Petersburg in 2001, Russian embassy said Friday.

Each such trip will have to be authorized by the Ministry and will be subject to frontier, customs, sanitary, and veterinarian statutory inspections applicable in Russia.*