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    Baltic News Service
    August 11, 2008 Monday 3:05 PM EET



    LATVIAN FORMIN TO ORGANIZE CHARTER FLIGHTS FROM ARMENIA'S YEREVAN TO
    GET PEOPLE HOME FROM GEORGIA

    RIGA Aug 11


    The Latvian Foreign Ministry in cooperation with Latvian national
    carrier Airbaltic will organize charter flights from Yerevan in
    Armenia to bring home those Latvia citizens and residents who want to
    leave Georgia.

    The ministry's spokesman Ivars Lasis told BNS that the embassy is
    organizing buses to from Tbilisi to Erevan, and the charter flight is
    planned for Monday evening.

    Airbaltic spokesman Janis Vanags told BNS that the airline is doing
    everything possible to transport the people who had planned to fly
    from Tbilisi in Georgia to Latvia on Sunday night to closest
    airports. Airbaltic has offered several variants -- to re-book flights
    to any other company's flight from Istanbul in Turkey, Yerevan or Baku
    in Azerbaijan. Passengers may also refund their tickets.

    No particular time of the flight is known and it is not known how many
    people will fly to Latvia. There will also be Lithuanian and Estonian
    citizens among passengers.

    Latvia's national carrier Airbaltic has cancelled its Sunday's flight
    to Georgian capital Tbilisi due to security reasons. The next flight
    is scheduled for Tuesday.

    The flight to Georgia was planned at 10:40 p.m. and the plane had to
    return to Riga at 3:45 a.m. Tbilisi time, but both flights have been
    cancelled. Airbaltic had planned to fly its biggest airplane to be
    able to serve all people who wanted to leave Georgia. So far Airbaltic
    had been the last international airline which had not cancelled its
    flights to Georgia.

    The Latvian embassy has so far found at least 80 Latvian citizens and
    residents who want to leave Georgia due to the war situation there,
    and 22 of them had to fly home with Sunday's flight.

    The Latvian embassy in Turkey is also involved in helping Latvian
    residents get back home, as many people choose to go by bus to Turkey
    and then fly to Latvia, including the mountain climber group, which
    went for rescue of three Latvian citizens who went missing in Georgian
    mountains.

    A Russian fighter jet on Sunday dropped a bomb 200 meters away from
    the Tbilisi airport's runway, reported the Georgian Interior
    Ministry. The airport has not been damaged and there were no
    casualties, said Interior Ministry's spokesman Shota Utiashvili.

    Russia has launched war against Georgia on Friday, bringing troops to
    Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia. War has been declared in
    Georgia, there is news about thousands of people killed and new
    bombings performed by Russia.
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