ITAR-TASS News Agency, Russia
April 13, 2007 Friday

Kocharyan calls for broader contacts among CIS border guards

Armenian President Robert Kocharyan has gone on record for still
broader cooperation among the border guards of the CIS countries.

“It is necessary to make cooperation among CIS border guards still
broader,” he stated here on Friday, while receiving the participants
of the meeting of the Council of Commanders of CIS Border Guard
Forces, which is under way in the Armenian capital.

First Deputy Director of the Russian Federal Security Service General
Vladimir Pronichev, who also heads the Russian Border Guard Service,
led the group.

According to Kocharyan, cooperation among the CIS border guards “is
especially timely today because the border guard services have to
deal now with numerous new challenges, besides the growing danger of
terrorism and illicit drugs circulation”.

The participants of the reception informed Kocharyan about the
problems that were discussed during the Council meeting and about the
approaches to their solution.