Baku Today, Azerbaijan
Oct 22 2004
Georgia Grants Entry to Armenians Stuck in South Ossetia
22/10/2004 11:22
Georgian authorities gave entry to the dozens of the Armenian
citizens, who have been trapped in breakaway South Ossetia en-route
to Armenia for more than a week already.
A convoy of busses and trucks belonging to the Armenian citizens were
moving from Russia to Armenia via Georgia’s breakaway region of South
Ossetia, as the border checkpoint in Larsi remains closed by the
Russian authorities since early September. The Larsi checkpoint is
the only land border linking Georgia with Russia that is controlled
by the official Tbilisi.
The Georgian authorities blocked the convoy near the village of
Ergneti in the South Ossetian conflict zone and refused to give the
Armenian citizens an entry, as they crossed the border with Georgia
at the Roki Pass, which is out of the Georgia’s control.
Georgian officials say that Tbilisi showed `its good will’ by giving
the Armenian citizens an entry.