RA AUTHORITIES APPLY TO GEORGIA WITH REQUEST TO PERMIT MOVING OF
ARMENIANS THROUGH NON-OPERATING BORDER POINT OF ERGNETI

YEREVAN, JULY 27, NOYAN TAPAN. By the instruction of RA Prime Minister
Andranik Margarian, for solving the problem of moving of RA citizens
having accumulated at the non-operating border point in the Georgian
locality of Ergneti for entering RA through Georgia due to the closure
of the Verin Lars check-point on the Russian-Georgian border, in the
evening of July 25, a meeting with Ambassador of Georgia to Armenia
Revaz Gachechiladze took place at RA Foreign Ministry, during which an
official memorandum was passed to the Georgian authorities for them
to show a good will and to permit movement of about 100 Armenians to
Armenia through Georgia when possible.

According to RA government Press Service, for avoiding such situations
in the future, the Embassy and Consulate General of RA in Russia were
charged to inform RA citizens through media and other possible means
that this point in Ergneti does not operate and they can travel by
the Novorossiysk-Poti ferry-boat.

On July 26, they informed from the Georgian Foreign Ministry that the
letter with a proposal on the positive solution of the issue has been
passed to the Georgian government.