TBILISI. Aug 6 (Interfax-AVN) - OSCE observers have conducted reconnaissance of the entire 152km-long Dagestani strap of the Georgian-Russian border to get ready for its upcoming monitoring, chairman of the Georgian Border Guard Department Valery Chkheidze told Interfax-Military News Agency on Tuesday.
According to him, four main posts of the observers stationing already selected.
"The Georgian party is interested in the international monitoring of the Dagestani strap," Chkheidze said. He noted that such monitoring was already in progress on the 81km-long Chechen and 62km-long Ingush straps of the Georgian-Russian border.
The department's chairman stressed that the monitoring would start in the near future and Georgian border guards would protect the observers.
At present the Chechen and Ingush straps of the Georgian border are monitored by 52 OSCE observers from 23 countries, including Russia.