Emergency teams to help trucks stuck at border

Aug 13, 2009
TBT Staff

VILNIUS- On August 11, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Vygaudas Usackas called in Ambassador of the Russian Federation Vladimir Chkhikvadze and requested him to provide explanations concerning the discriminatory measures that are applied to the Lithuanian road carriers.

The Minister stressed that the situation on the Latvian-Russian border is intolerable.

“The discrimination of Lithuanian road carriers does not correspond to the constructive and pragmatic relations between Lithuania and Russia”, Minister V.Usackas said.

The Minister urged the Russian Federation to take immediate actions for the resolution of the situation and to stop discriminating the road carriers from the Republic of Lithuania.

Today, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister also signed a letter to the European Commission with a request to guarantee equal conditions for competition of the European Union road carriers and to assure that road carriers are not discriminated on national basis.

Fire and Rescue Department of Lithuania has sent the Lithuanian Emergency Response Team to scope out the situation at the border with dozen-kilometer queues of trucks of Lithuanian carriers which formed after the Russian customs officers tightened the inspection of vehicles headed Lt ColVygandas Kurkulis, deputy director of the Fire and Rescue Department.

 According to the information presented by the Latvian customs, at the moment there stand 630 cargo vehicles lining up at the Terehov border. In the last day, 128 vehicles were allowed to enter Russia. There are 230 vehicles standing at the Grebnev border post; 98 vehicles crossed the border over the past day.

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