During a meeting with Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin on July 19, Ruslan Davydov, the head of the Federal Customs Service (FCS), said that the Russian customs is in coordination with the Georgian side for operational border control at the international automobile checkpoint (MAPP) "Upper Lars" (on the Russian-Georgian border), its throughput has increased.

Davydov noted, "Their Armenian colleagues help them in this. In places where traffic is difficult, as in Upper Lars, additional platforms are being created to control the transportation of goods across the border." "We have coordination with the Georgian side on how to submit cars to each other for control. First of all, we need to think about people who suffer when such mechanisms do not work, stand in lines for a long time," the head of the customs department said. "At the Verkhny Lars checkpoint, we managed to achieve record results in terms of passing cars and trucks: in June, 31,622 trucks were passed. The pace continues into July," he added. "This is more than a thousand trucks a day, even though during the season, from three to 3.5 thousand cars pass in the same place and up to 15 thousand individuals. There is an overwhelming load. This is a huge merit of all departments and our partners," the head of the FCS emphasized.

Mishustin, in turn, called this interaction healthy cooperation. He thanked the employees of the Ministry of Transport, the Federal Customs Service, and other departments for increasing the capacity of the Upper Lars checkpoint. The Russian Prime Minister recalled that this was the request of his Armenian counterpart Nikol Pashinyan. "We in Sochi gave him the appropriate promises, which were strictly fulfilled," Mishustin said.