TBILISI. Feb 17 (Interfax-AVN) - Russian and Georgian border guard services are expected to discuss their plans of cooperation on the Chechen border section, Colonel Kornely Salia, chief-of- staff of the Georgian State Border Guard Department, told Interfax-Military News Agency Monday.
Salia said that the participants in the meeting would adjust a lot of practical issues grounded by agreements between the Russian and Georgian presidents on cooperation in the Chechen border section. The agreements were signed at the CIS summit in Chisinau last year.
Salia also said that the meeting would take into account that snow in the mountain passes will soon thaw down. "We will arrange data exchange, joint patrolling, and other measures to prevent possible breakthroughs by Chechen guerillas," he said.
Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze had said earlier that the border guard services of the two countries should more actively cooperate in order to make the Chechen section of the Russian-Georgian border "unapproachable."