Russian side is guilty of border traffic jams, Georgian Foreign Ministry reports

The new Foreign Minister of Georgia, Giorgi Kvirikashvili, has blamed the Russian side for the many-kilometer-long traffic jams at the 'Kazbegi - Verkhny Lars' checkpoint.

"At a time when our side lets one truck pass in a maximum of one and a half or two minutes, the other side does it in a much longer period ... The traffic jams are caused by this," Kvirikashvili stated.

It is reported that a special inter-departmental group has been created to organize the primary passage of cars with perishable products, and seeks cars with women and children to extricate from the traffic jams.