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[ BC-Ecuador-Colombia 123 19-08 0159 ]
BC-Ecuador-Colombia
code:6 INDEX: International, Politics, Defence
HL:Ecuador to close key
border crossing with Colombia to tighten
security
QUITO, Ecuador (AP)
_ The Ecuadorean government has decided to close a
principal border crossing
with Colombia at night to prevent the entry
of
drug traffickers and
combatants in the latter country's civil war, a
provincial governor said
Monday.
Edgar Moscoso, the governor of the Carchi province on the
Colombian
border,
told reporters that the government has decided to close
the Rumichaca
border
crossing from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. beginning Sept. 1.
The Rumichaca
crossing
connects Tulcan, Ecuador, with Ipiales,
Colombia.
The night-time closure will run until mid-October on a trial
basis,
Moscoso
said.
Ecuador and Colombia share a 640-kilometre
border that runs from the
Pacific
coast across the Andes Mountains and
deep into the Amazon jungle.
CP 2014ES 19-08-02