MINSK. Sept 2 (Interfax-AVN) - Two Georgian citizens, aged 20 and 23, were detained on Wednesday by Brest border guards on the Belarusian- Polish stretch of the border, Belarus' State Border Committee told Interfax.
"Receiving a 'Stand to!' command after an alarm system signaled an intrusion, the border guards hurried to the troubled area and spotted footprints in the exclusion zone. The trespassers had been following in each others tracks," the Belarusian State Border Committee spokesman Igor Shchetinin said.
The Georgian citizens were detained in the direct vicinity of the Polish border, he said. "The young men claimed they were going to Poland to seek a better life," he said, noting that, "all of the earlier detained Georgian citizens said the same."
Belarusian border guards have detained over 30 Georgian illegal immigrants over the past four days.
No official inquiries have been received from the Georgian Foreign Ministry on regular and massive detentions of Georgian citizens on the Belarusian border with the European Union, the Belarusian Foreign Ministry informed Interfax.