PanArmenian News
March 15 2005

RUSSIAN BORDER TROOPS DETAINED 36 TRESPASSERS OF ARMENIAN STATE
BORDER WITHIN 2.5 MONTHS OF 2005

15.03.2005 05:37

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ In March the servicemen of the Border Department of
the Federal Security Service of Russia detained an ethnic Kurd
Turkish citizen, who had tried to trespass the state border of
Armenia `in search of better life,’ Arminfo news agency reported. As
Press Secretary of the Border Department of the Federal Security
Service of Russia, colonel Ivan Zhirenko reported today, the detained
trespasser is already conveyed to the National Security Service of
Armenia and `work is held with him to clear out the circumstances.’
In Ivan Zhirenko’s words, within the period of report Russian border
troops have detained 36 trespassers of the state border of Armenia,
35 out of them – at the checkpoint of Zvartnots international
airport, 1 – the aforementioned Turkish citizen, detained at the
segment of the Gyumri border detachment of the Border Department of
the Federal Security Service of Russia. Within the same period
contraband of $18 thousand is conveyed to the respective bodies of
Armenia.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress