Agency WPS
DEFENSE and SECURITY (Russia)
November 12, 2004, Friday
TAJIKISTAN AND ARMENIA DON’T PAY THEIR FULL SHARES FOR MAINTAINING
RUSSIAN BORDER GUARDS
The press service of the State Auditing Chamber circulated a
communique of the Chamber’s meeting last Friday, dedicated to
revision of results of using the federal property and federal budget
appropriations to upkeep the border groups in Tajikistan and Armenia.
(…)
The audit done by the Auditing Chamber has displayed that “issues
related to financing of border units by the states in which they are
deployed still persist.” Over January-June 2004, Tajikistan has
failed to transfer 263,730,000 rubles and Armenia – 3,186,000 rubles
to maintain the Russian border guards.
At the session it was decided to submit a statement into the Russian
Finance Ministry and the Russian Border Service of the FSB, as well
as an information letter into the government.
Source: Kommersant, November 10, 2004, p. 14