TBILISI. Nov 11 (Interfax-AVN) - Georgia has started regrouping its border guards on the northern sections of the border with Russia due to the upcoming winter, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry's border guard department said on Thursday.
"The personnel number is reduced at some sections as the snow sets in, while some sections are reinforced," the spokesman told Interfax-Military News Agency.
He declined to disclose any figures, saying only that "all possible border crossing paths are tapped reliably on the most problematic border sections - the Chechen, Ingush and Dagestani ones."
"Permanent contacts on the level of pickets and detachments have been established and are maintained with Russian border guards," the spokesman said.
A meeting between Colonel Kornely Salia, chief-of-staff of the Georgian border guard directorate, and officials of the Russian Federal Security Service's North Caucasus regional border guard directorate is scheduled for November, he went on. "The meeting will address an interaction plan for the winter period," he said.