Arka News Agency, Armenia
April 14 2006

ARMENIAN PRESIDENT: LARGER-SCALE COOPERATION BETWEEN CIS FRONTIER
TROOPS NECESSITY

YEREVAN, April 13. /ARKA/. Larger-scale cooperation between frontier
troops of the CIS member-countries is a necessity, RA President
Robert Kocharyan stated at his meeting with a delegation of the
Council of Commanders of the CIS Frontier Troops headed by Council
Chairman Vladimir Pronichev.
Greater danger of terrorism and drug dissemination in the world issue
more serious challenges to the frontier troops so larger-scale
cooperation between the CIS frontier troops has become a necessity,
Kocharyan said.
The guests also informed the Armenian president of the tasks
discussed at the 57th meeting of the Council held in Tsakhkadzor as
well as the approaches to the accomplishment of tasks.
Participating in the Councils’ meeting were members of the CIS
Executive Committee, Secretariat of the CIS Council of Ministers of
Defense, Collective Security Treaty Organization, Secretariat of the
EurAsEC Integration Committee and the CIS Antiterrorist Center.
The meeting discussed issues of battling international terrorism,
organized crime, drug trafficking and illegal migration.
The Council of Commanders of the CIS Frontier Troops was formed under
a decision of the CIS Council of Heads of State of July 6, 1992, and
is a collegial body of the Council of the Heads of State and the CIS
Council of the Heads of Government for coordination of protection of
the CIS external borders and economic zones. Among the members of the
Council of Commanders of the CIS Frontier Troops are chiefs and
commanders of the CIS frontier troops. P.T. -0–

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress