Russian border guards in Armenia to pay more attention to Iranian border
Mediamax news agency
17 Dec 04
Yerevan, 17 December: This year officers of the border department of
the Russian Federal Security Service in Armenia detained 119 violators
of the state border – 30 people more than in 2003.
Mediamax reports that Lt-Gen Sergey Bondarev, chief of the border
department, said today in Yerevan that the Russian border guards
are to pay special attention to the Iranian section of the border
in connection with the growth in trade turnover, the start of the
construction of the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline and the implementation
of a number of other joint economic projects.
Sergey Bondarev also noted a possible increase in the flow of Armenian
refugees from Iraq and Iran, as well as of Kurds form Turkey if the
situation in those countries deteriorates.