VITEBSK, 26 August (BelTA) – Vehicle traffic across the Belarusian-Latvian border may be slowed down due to the modernization of the Latvian border checkpoints Silene and Paternieki (the border checkpoints Urbany and Grigorovshchina on the Belarusian side), BelTA learned from representatives of the Vitebsk Customs of the State Customs Committee of Belarus.
Up-to-date information about vehicle traffic and queues at these border checkpoints is available on the website of the State Revenue Service of Latvia (https://www.vid.gov.lv/en/customs).
The reconstruction of the Latvian border checkpoints Silene and Paternieki will last till late 2020. Their modernization and the reconstruction of the approach road on both sides of the border are part of the international technical aid project that the State Customs Committee of Belarus, the Vitebsk Customs, and GAO State Real Estate (Latvia) are implementing within the framework of the Latvia-Lithuania-Belarus transboundary cooperation program of the European Neighborhood Instrument for the 2014-2020 period. The project is financed by the European Union, Belarus, and Latvia. The European Union's contribution stands at €4.57 million, including €3.5 million for Belarus.
