His Excellency President of Customs and Chairperson of the World Customs Organisation (WCO) Shaikh Ahmed bin Hamad Al Khalifa has chaired the three-day meeting of the 85th session of the WCO General Policies Committee.
The committee approved to conduct a feasibility study of a proposal submitted by HE Shaikh Ahmed to form an international platform to exchange customs data and information under the WCO.
The President of Customs expressed the importance of the meeting, expressing thanks to the General Secretariat for their events in preparing for the meeting.
He asserted that global customs authorities had a crucial role in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic as part of frontliners by facilitating the traffic of humanitarian aid necessary goods.