FOREIGN NATIONALS ARRIVE IN ARMENIA FROM GEORGIA

ARMENPRESS
Aug 11, 2008

YEREVAN, AUGUST 11, ARMENPRESS: Armenian Foreign Ministry said today
the embassy and the consulate in Georgia are helping all Armenian
citizens wishing to travel home. It told Armenpress that by 6 pm
August 10 no Armenian citizen in Georgia was reported to have suffered.

It said also Armenian authorities are helping hundreds of foreign
nationals caught up in the Russia-Georgia conflict, to move to
Armenia. About 130 of the 200 Italian nationals known to be in Georgia
left by bus Sunday to travel to the Armenian capital Yerevan. Poland’s
Foreign Ministry said it had sent a government plane to Yerevan to
collect around 180 evacuees waiting there.

Armenia decided not to charge visa fees from foreigners fleeing Georgia
who get them at the border. They are exempted also from transit fees
at Yerevan’s Zvartnots airport.

The ministry’s press division said Armenian border and customs services
were told to show the biggest possible assistance to foreign nationals
and facilitate their crossing into Armenia.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress