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    UPPER LARS CHECKPOINT RESUMED FUNCTIONING

    news.am
    March 1 2010
    Armenia

    Today, after a lapse of three years the Upper Lars checkpoint on
    Russia-Georgia border reopened.

    The agreement was reached at the Russian-Georgian experts' meetings in
    Yerevan and Kazbegi with the participation of Swiss embassy employees
    and confirmed by Russian and Georgian Foreign offices' notes.

    Only vehicles will be eligible to pass through the checkpoint, while
    pedestrians and habitants of adjacent regions are banned from crossing
    it. Georgian and Russian citizens willing to cross the border have
    to be issued a visa in Swiss embassy.

    Spokesman for the Federal Security Service border department for North
    Ossetia Alexander Solod told RIA Novosti, that CIS, North Ossetian
    and Abkhazian citizens can cross the state border having foreign,
    business and diplomatic, seafarers' passports or a certificate on
    return to Russia.

    The only official land route checkpoint on Georgia-Russia border is
    Upper Lars, functioning since 2006. It was closed by the decision of
    Russian side for reconstruction.

    In May, 2009 a solemn ceremony on construction completion was held.

    Later, in October end Moscow and Tbilisi took interest in early
    resumption of checkpoint activities.
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