Armenia not to close border with Georgia yet

12:41, 28.02.2020

Secretary of the Security Council of Armenia Armen Grigoryan said that there was no need yet to close Armenia’s border with Georgia over the novel coronavirus (COVID-2019) outbreak.

“In the event of necessity, it will be discussed, at this moment there is no such need,” Grigoryan told ARMENPRESS when asked if the government is considering shutting down the border with Georgia as it did with Iran.

“We haven’t reached that point yet. In terms of security, we will discuss, if it will be necessary, we will close it, if not, we won’t”, he said, when asked about possible national security issues if Armenia will close its border with Georgia at the same time having shut down the border with Iran.

On February 25, Armenia imposed a partial closure of its border with Iran as the Islamic Republic was reporting COVID-2019 cases.

Georgia reported the first case of coronavirus in the country on February 26.

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