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  • New checkpoint opens on Armenian-Georgian border

    Public Television, Armenia
    Oct 31 2007

    New checkpoint opens on Armenian-Georgian border

    LENGTH: 354 words


    [Presenter] The 125-km border between Armenia and Georgia has yet to
    be demarcated. The disputed Debet valley between the two countries
    will be divided by the Armenian-Georgian commission. But before that,
    a section of the border, where border guards serve, is being
    renovated.

    [Correspondent] A new checkpoint has been constructed near the village
    of Dzyunashogh on the Armenian-Georgian border. The checkpoint has
    been provided with a clean and large barracks, lecture rooms, a
    bathroom and a sitting room. Officers and their families will not feel
    bored any more.

    [Armenian Border Troops Commander Maj-Gen Armen Abrahamyan]
    Improvements in servicemen's social life make it possible to increase
    the quality of military service. If before officers slept in their
    rooms, now every

    The apartments have been provided with good furniture. Similar
    apartments are planned to be built along the whole Armenian-Georgian
    border within three years and the commander of the border troops hopes
    that some disputed sectors on the border between Armenia and Georgia
    will be resolved by that time.

    [Abrahamyan] As sections of the border are demarcated, stage-by-stage
    construction work is carried out there. The 125-km sector of the
    border has yet to be demarcated by the Armenian-Georgian
    commission. The most controversial area includes some parts of the
    former Tumanyan District, a forested mountain area and the Debet river
    valley.

    [Correspondent] Describing the situation in this sector of the
    Armenian-Georgian border as being averagely complicated, the commander
    said that the situation there is calm, especially in winter, but in
    summer cases of smuggling start to increase. He added that in order to
    make the border more controllable, new modern equipment will be
    installed there.
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