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    ITAR-TASS, Russia
    April 1 2004


    Georgia calls to resume law enforcement cooperation with neighbors


    BAKU, April 1 (Itar-Tass) - Georgian Interior Minister Georgi
    Baramidze called to resume contacts between police of Caucasian
    countries and Russia within the framework of the Borjomi Four.

    `Meetings of interior ministers of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia and
    Russia should be resumed because they promote anti-crime fight,' he
    said at a meeting with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ramil Usobov
    Thursday. The parties expressed concern over intensification of drugs
    and arms smuggling, as well as mounted activity of criminal groups in
    the region.

    `Fighting this evil is a matter of high priority in the cooperation
    of police forces of Georgia and Azerbaijan,' Baramidze said. He also
    stressed the necessity to intensify interaction of police in struggle
    against terrorism. `We should be wary and act jointly to protect our
    countries from terrorists,' he said.

    The Georgian Interior Ministry in strengthening the protection of the
    state border with Azerbaijan `to prevent criminals from penetrating
    Georgia from Azerbaijan and vice versa, as well as to bar the ties
    between criminal groups of both countries.'
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