RUSSIAN GENERAL: IN CASE ARMENIAN-TURKISH BORDER IS DEBLOCKED, RUSSIAN FRONTIERS READY TO FULFILL THEIR TASKS ALSO IN NEW CONDITIONS

ArmInfo
2009-05-27 16:02:00

In case the Armenian-Turkish border is deblocked, Russian frontiers are
ready to fulfill their tasks also in new conditions, Sergey Bondarev,
Lt. General, Head of the Russian Federal Security Service Frontier
Department in Armenia told media Wednesday.

‘Opening the Armenian-Turkish border is the internal affair of Armenia
and Turkey. We should obey to the Command and we will act in accordance
with the orders and the Armenian-Russian treaty dated 1992 regulating
the sphere,’ he said.

As regards the reports by Turkish media, Lt. General Bondarev said
Russian frontiers do not prepare check- points and frontier posts
for possible deblocking of the Armenian-Turkish border.

‘As regards the railroad groundwork from Gyumri to the Armenian-Turkish
border, it was carried out yet last year by the South Caucasian Railway
and our department bears no relation to that’, Bondarev said. Russian
frontiers serve in Armenia on the basis of a bilateral inter-state
treaty between Russia and Armenia concluded in 1992.