MOSCOW, December 27 (AVN) - A regular session, fourth this year, of the Russian-Belarussian Border Committee board was held in Moscow Wednesday, a spokesman for the Russian Federal Border Guard Service (FBGS) told the Military News Agency.
The session was attended by Russian FBGS Director Konstantin Totsky and Lieutenant-General Alexander Pavlovsky, chairman of the state committee of the Belarussian border guard troops.
The year 2000 witnessed a considerable progress in border co-operation within the Union of Russia and Belarus, as a joint working group charged with unification of the legal basis commenced elaboration of the draft model law of the Union "Concerning the State Border," Totsky told reporters after the session.
Besides, the board approved a joint directive on joint protection of the Union's outer frontier for 2001 and the joint draft programme "Boundary Facilitation" for the period until 2005, he said.
This year, Russia and Belarus elaborated and approved the plan for realisation of the Union's Border Control Development Concept, top-priority measures aimed at establishment of the unified border control system along the Union's outer frontier, the scheme of the Border Committee activities in 2001, and the plan for elaboration of the purpose-oriented Union border security programme for the period until 2015.
The next session of the board will take place in Minsk in the spring of 2001, Pavlovsky said.