MOSCOW. Oct 15 (Interfax-AVN) - Officials of border guard and coast guard services of Black Sea states will hold their next meeting in Ukraine's Odesa from Wednesday to Friday, a spokesman for the border guard service of the Russian Federal Security Service told Interfax-Military News Agency.
Border guard representatives from Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine will discuss the state of multilateral cooperation and the situation in the Black Sea region, the spokesman said.
In addition, the meeting is expected to approve the decision on setting up an information and coordination center in the Bulgarian city of Burgas and nominate the country that will supervise cooperation between border guard services of the region in 2004 and 2005.
Russia will be represented at the meeting by Lieutenant General Alexander Manilov, deputy head of the border guard service.
Multilateral border cooperation among Black Sea nations was launched at the meeting of border guard and coast guard service chiefs in Istanbul in May 2000. The main goal of cooperation is prevention and stopping of all kinds of illegal trans-border activity in the Black Sea, the spokesman said.