BISHKEK. Sept 13 (Interfax) - A Kyrgyz-Russian joint-venture engaged in manufacturing technological means to guard borders will issue its first products by the end of 2001, General Director of the Zhanar company Bektursun Dzhanibekov told Interfax on Thursday.
The decision to set up the enterprise was made at a session of the Kyrgyz-Russian intergovernmental commission held near Lake Issyk-Kul From Tuesday to Thursday. The session was attended by the Kyrgyz defence minister and the Russian minister of atomic energy.
The equipment will be produced by the Zhanar company, which earlier was part of the Soviet defence industry and produced flight computers.
Technological means for guarding the border will be produced on the basis of up-to-date Russian technology. This includes, in particular, radio-beam and magnetometric devices for alarm and radar systems, which the Kyrgyz border service lacks at the moment, Dzhanibekov said.
Kyrgyz Defence Minister Esen Topoyev had earlier told Interfax that Russia will soon supply Kyrgyzstan with four types of radar stations costing over 20 million rubles to guard Kyrgyz borders.
The Kyrgyz Defence Ministry and Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy in 2000 signed an agreement on modernising and replacing guarding technologies at certain sectors of the Kyrgyz-Chinese border and installing equipment at the Kyrgyz-Tajik and Kyrgyz-Uzbek border. The length of newly equipped Kyrgyz borders will total 1,700 kilometers.