TBILISI. June 14 (Interfax-AVN) - The Organization for the Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will train about 800 border guards in Georgia during a period of one year, a spokesman for the Georgian border guard department told Interfax.
Department chairman Badri Bitsadze and the OSCE training programs manager signed a cooperation protocol on Monday, the spokesman said.
According to the border guard department, the protocol provides for launching the training program for about 800 Georgian border guards. The studies began at the Lilo, Kazbegi and Lagodekhi pickets already on Monday.
Bitsadze told reporters that "the training that OSCE experts will conduct on the Chechen, Ingush and Dagestani border sections will make it possible to control the situation and effect international monitoring to a certain extent."