Baku hosts fourth meeting of working group on coastguard

Baku, October 28 (AzerTAc). The fourth meeting of the working group on the coastguard of the International Conference on Border Issues started in Baku.
The two-day meeting will bring together experts of the border services from Azerbaijan, US, Germany, Finland, Georgia, Netherlands, Russia, Turkey as well as the EU border security agency FRONTEX, press-service of the State Border Service said.
The working group`s responsibilities are to ensure reliable protection of maritime borders, to study the legal base of border services, to strengthen border security in the sea, to improve methods of inspection of ships to discover illegal migrants, drugs, contraband, weapons.
An effective system of education and training of the coastguard staff was also discussed. A decision to continue discussions on border security in the sea, as well as to hold the next fifth meeting of the working group in Baku in October 2011 was adopted.
The participants visited the Academy of the State Border Service and the Coastguard base.