Mongolia permits foreign tourists to cross country to China.

BARNAUL, August 26 (Itar-Tass) -- For the first time Mongolia
permitted foreign tourists to cross the country to China. An international border-crossing station was opened in Khovd. The border checkpoint has been bilateral earlier and only citizens of China and Mongolia could cross it.

"Mongolia has taken the measure in the pilot mode. The border
checkpoint will operate in the international mode starting from the end of
this tourism season," chief of the department for international and
interregional relations of the Altai Territory Alexander Zhilin told
Itar-Tass on Thursday.
The Altai Territory is one of the parties that initiated this project.
In the previous year at a meeting of the international coordination
council "Altai - Our Common House", which brings together Russia, China,
Kazakhstan and Mongolia, the territorial authorities raised the problem on
the restricted access to the extreme tourism route "Altai - Golden
Mountains". The tourism route is running through four countries and gained
popularity of European travelers. However, numerous administrative
barriers hamper the traveling on this tourist route.
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