STAVROPOL. May 19. (Interfax-AVN) -- Bilateral tactical training of the Russian and Azerbaijani border guards will take place on a mountainous section of the joint border in the middle of this summer, acting chief of North Caucasus regional border guard department Lieutenant General Valery Putov told Interfax- Military News Agency on Monday.
"Bilateral Russian-Azerbaijani tactical training will probably take place in June or July this year," said Putov, who returned from a working trip to Azerbaijan the day before.
Estimating results of his meeting with Azerbaijan colleagues, Putov has noted concurrence of positions on such important issues as suppression of arms smuggling, drug smuggling, illegal migration and protection of the Caspian Sea's biological resources.
Concerning the current situation on the border, Putov declared that "the situation on mountainous sections of the state border disturbs us less so far, as spring has come much later this year, and the passes are closed yet."
The department is much more concerned over the situation on the Caspian and Azov Seas, the general emphasized.
He recalled that recently a state sea inspector has recently died on duty in the Azov Sea, and one more inspector died in the Caspian Sea at the end of the last year.
According to the press service of North Caucasus regional department, about 11,000 meters of poaching nets and six boats were confiscated by the boat group of the Caspian naval border brigade over the past weekend.