MOSCOW, December 27 (AVN) - A regular session, fourth this year, of the Russian-Belarussian Border Committee board will be held in Moscow Wednesday, a spokesman for the Russian Federal Border Guard Service (FBGS) told the Military News Agency.
The session will be attended by Russian FBGS Director Konstantin Totsky and Lieutenant-General Alexander Pavlovsky, chairman of the state committee of the Belarussian border guard troops. The session is supposed to consider and approve five documents pertaining to co-operation between the countries' border guards as regards protection of the Union's frontiers.
The Russian-Belarussian treaty on joint work for protection of the Belarussian border was signed in Minsk on February 21, 1995. The two countries' co-operation in the sphere was further boosted by establishment of the Border Committee on April 2, 1997.
The committee board has held 11 sessions so far, which resulted in elaboration of common approaches to the border guard policy concept. The two nations have also held joint border operations Rubezh and Migrant.
The border guard agencies of Russia and Belarus are concentrating on implementation of the Union's Border Control Development Programme, which is financed from the Union's budget, the spokesman said. Over RUR93m (USD3.33m) have been allocated on this purpose since 1996, he added.