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CIS COUNCIL OF BORDER TROOPS COMMANDERS MEETS IN ARMENIA
ITAR-TASS Agency, Russia
April 12 2007
YEREVAN, April 12 (Itar-Tass) -- The 57th meeting of the CIS Council
of the Border Troops Commanders, which opened in the Armenian mountain
resort of Tsakhkadroz on Thursday, will consider the situation on
the CIS external borders and topical problems of cooperation of the
CIS border departments.
The meeting is chaired by first deputy director of the Russian Security
Service, head of the Russian Border Service General of the Army
Vladimir Pronichev. Delegations of the border departments of Armenia,
Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine, as well as cooperating bodies
of the CIS and other international organizations.
The Council will discuss the pace of preparations of joint special
border operations and preventive operations in the current year. They
are aimed to oppose the penetration of weapons, ammunition, drugs
and illegal migration, stop poaching activities and protect sea
bio-resources in the waters of the Black and Caspian Seas through
the CIS borders from the territory of Afghanistan.
The forum participants will consider a draft agreement on cooperation
in opposing the forgery of documents giving the right to cross
the state border. They will hear information on the beginning of
interaction of the Coordination Service of the Council of Commanders
with the Agency for issues of direction of operational cooperation
on the external borders of the European Union and the Executive
Committee of the Regional Antiterrorist Agency of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization.
The Council of Commanders was created according to a decision of
the Council of CIS Heads of State on July 6, 1992. This is a CIS
collective body on issues of coordination, guarding of external
borders and economic zones of the Commonwealth.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
ITAR-TASS Agency, Russia
April 12 2007
YEREVAN, April 12 (Itar-Tass) -- The 57th meeting of the CIS Council
of the Border Troops Commanders, which opened in the Armenian mountain
resort of Tsakhkadroz on Thursday, will consider the situation on
the CIS external borders and topical problems of cooperation of the
CIS border departments.
The meeting is chaired by first deputy director of the Russian Security
Service, head of the Russian Border Service General of the Army
Vladimir Pronichev. Delegations of the border departments of Armenia,
Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine, as well as cooperating bodies
of the CIS and other international organizations.
The Council will discuss the pace of preparations of joint special
border operations and preventive operations in the current year. They
are aimed to oppose the penetration of weapons, ammunition, drugs
and illegal migration, stop poaching activities and protect sea
bio-resources in the waters of the Black and Caspian Seas through
the CIS borders from the territory of Afghanistan.
The forum participants will consider a draft agreement on cooperation
in opposing the forgery of documents giving the right to cross
the state border. They will hear information on the beginning of
interaction of the Coordination Service of the Council of Commanders
with the Agency for issues of direction of operational cooperation
on the external borders of the European Union and the Executive
Committee of the Regional Antiterrorist Agency of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization.
The Council of Commanders was created according to a decision of
the Council of CIS Heads of State on July 6, 1992. This is a CIS
collective body on issues of coordination, guarding of external
borders and economic zones of the Commonwealth.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress