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March 19, 2005 Saturday 6:46 AM Eastern Time

Georgia border guards to participate in V-anniversary relay race

By Tengiz Pachkoria

TBILISI

Georgian border guards will participate in the relay race taking
place along the borders of CIS countries to mark the 60th anniversary
of Victory over Nazism, the Georgian border guard department told
Itar-Tass on Saturday.

The relay race began on February 27.

It is organised in accordance with the decision of the Council of CIS
border guard chiefs.

Georgian border guards will join the action next week. The meeting of
Russian and Georgian border guards will take place at the Kazbeg
section of the Georgian-Russian border on March 22, and during the
meeting the relay race symbols will be handed over to the Georgian
border guards.

Mementoes will be presented to border guard veterans of the two
countries during the meeting at the section, departmental sources
noted.

Representatives of the North Caucasian regional border guard
department and Georgian border guard department senior officials will
participate in the ceremony on the border.

Georgian border guars will hand over the relay race symbols to
Armenian colleagues on March 23. The ceremony will take place at the
Georgian checkpoint Sadakhlo near the border with Armenia.