| Border guards have been conducting checks on internal borders for six days (29.05.2010) |
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During the last 24 hours the border guards have checked 17, 046 persons entering Latvia. About 12,693 persons have been checked on the highways, and 4,353 persons at Riga International Airport and the Port of Riga. Among the checked persons, 1,296 persons were third-country nationals. A total of 5,205 cars have also been checked. On the internal borders violation related to travel documents were detected with regard to 44 persons: 20 from Lithuania, 8 from Latvia, 3 from Estonia, 2 from Russia, 1 from Sweden, 1 from Great Britain, 1 from Germany, 1 from Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1 from China, 1 from Afghanistan, and 5 from Kiribati. Border guards refused entry to 35 persons. Traffic backups still are not forming on the highways crossing the internal borders. Since the border control on the internal borders has been reinstated a total of 186,800 persons and 25,500 transport vehicles have been checked. Entrance was refused to 190 persons, because they could produce neither a valid travel document nor a driver’s licences or a vehicle registration certificate. As we have already reported, from 9:00 on 24 May to 18:00 on 1 June 2010, temporary border control has been reinstated on internal borders. Border guards are performing minimal security checks of all people arriving in Latvia. Officers of the immigration units of the State Border Guard are conducting intensified checks of the areas adjacent to Latvia’s borders with Estonia and Lithuania; intensified border monitoring is also continuing on Latvia’s borders with Belarus and Russia. |