Moscow could share its experience with Kyrgyzstan on its accession to the Customs Union, Russia's top customs official said Thursday.
"Russia is sincerely concerned over the situation in Kyrgyzstan. We would like less disinterest and indifference between our countries," Andrei Belyaninov, head of Russia's customs service, told a Russian-Kyrgyz cooperation commission meeting here.
Kyrgyz Prime Minister Almazbek Atambayev said in last December during a trip to Moscow that the country is interested in joining the Customs Union, which groups Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus.
The tripartite customs union became fully operational on July 1, 2010 following ratification of the Customs Code between its partners, with the aim to remove its customs borders on July 1, 2011.
The union's three heads of state announced in Moscow in December that they intend to create a free economic space from January 1, 2012, which will permit the free flow of goods, services and people and the absence of customs checks.