ORDER BY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

1.  The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of  Russia shall maintain the negotiations with the Georgian side on concluding the Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Executive power of Georgia on mutual visits of citizens, and the Protocol between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Executive power of Georgia on simplification of the border-crossing procedure between Russian and Georgia by residents of border-adjacent territories.

2.  Federal Border Service of Russia, during of negotiations and until special instruction, shall maintain the existing procedure of border-crossing along the by-land segments of Russian-Georgian state border in Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation

M. Kasianov

30 November 2000

(Collection of Laws of the Russian Federation, Moscow, 2000, #50, p.9563)