Georgia, Russia agree on operation of Upper Lars border checkpoint
By Jamila Babayeva
The Upper Lars checkpoint on the Georgia-Russia border will operate around the clock, Georgian Foreign Ministry reported on January 14.
"As a result of an exchange of notes between the Foreign Ministries of Russia and Georgia as of January 15, the Upper Lars, Russian multilateral automobile checkpoint, as well as Georgian Kazbegi checkpoint will operate around the clock," the ministry said.
Daily capacity of the checkpoint will increase. About three million people and more than 870 vehicles were registered and passed through the checkpoint in 2013.
Georgia and Russia, its giant northern neighbor, have maintained no diplomatic relations since a brief war in 2008. Tbilisi broke off relations with Moscow in August 2008 when Moscow crushed a Georgian assault to reassert control over two rebel regions -South Ossetia and Abkhazia- and later recognized the regions. Georgia announced the two unrecognized republics as occupied territories in September 2008.
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