ID :
165581
Thu, 03/03/2011 - 11:48
Auther :
Shortlink :
http://m.oananews.org//node/165581
The shortlink copeid
Russia has no plans to re-deploy guards to Tajik-Afghan border
DUSHANBE, March 3 (Itar-Tass) - Russia has no plans to re-deploy
border guards to the Tajik-Afghan border, Russian Ambassador to Tajikistan Yuri Popov sad to the Business and Politics weekly on Thursday, in comments in the reports in local and foreign media on the on-going Russian-Tajik border cooperation talks in Dushanbe.
"A broader basing of Russian border guards on the Tajik-Afghan border is not on the agenda, and neither Moscow nor Dushanbe will be raising the issue," the Russian diplomat underlined.
"Russia and Tajikistan are coordinating a draft agreement on border issue cooperation at the expert level, with the view of optimising the parameters, forms and guidelines for interaction in this important sphere," he noted.
The term of the inter-government agreement, signed in 2005 and
ratified by the parliaments of the two countries, expires in April 2011.
The document regulated the conditions of the functioning in Tajikistan of a group of border troops of Russia's Federal Security Service, represented by a small group of advisers after Russia's withdrawal of its border troops from Tajikistan in the summer of 2005.
Russian border guards protected the Pyandzh frontier for almost 110 years. They have protected southern borders of the Commonwealth of
Independent States for the past 13 years.
From 1992 through 2005, Russian border guards in Tajikistan detained more than 3,000 border violators.
There were 535 clashes on the Tajik Afghan border in 13 years, and
1,378 times of shelling of border guards squads and outposts. Over this period, border guards seized 1,003 units of firearms - from shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles to machine guns and assault rifles, and more than 447,000 rounds of various ammunition.
They destroyed 335 weapons and ammunition caches. The Russian border guards made a significant contribution to the fight against drug trafficking. They seized and destroyed over 30 tons of narcotics, with heroin making one-third of the haul.
In rebuffing terrorists' attacks, 161 border guards were killed, and another 362 were injured. Seventeen of them received top decorations (Hero of Russia). A majority was given that award posthumously.
At present, Russia and Tajikistan continue military and border
cooperation. Military historian Viktor Dubovistky said in an interview to Itar-Tass that 230 Tajik students study at Russian military colleges, and that 25 Tajik officers are trainees at the Border Guard Troops Academy in Moscow.
Last year alone, Russia pilots transported 2,376 passengers who were Tajik servicemen, and delivered over 75 tons of cargos to border outposts in Pamir highlands.
border guards to the Tajik-Afghan border, Russian Ambassador to Tajikistan Yuri Popov sad to the Business and Politics weekly on Thursday, in comments in the reports in local and foreign media on the on-going Russian-Tajik border cooperation talks in Dushanbe.
"A broader basing of Russian border guards on the Tajik-Afghan border is not on the agenda, and neither Moscow nor Dushanbe will be raising the issue," the Russian diplomat underlined.
"Russia and Tajikistan are coordinating a draft agreement on border issue cooperation at the expert level, with the view of optimising the parameters, forms and guidelines for interaction in this important sphere," he noted.
The term of the inter-government agreement, signed in 2005 and
ratified by the parliaments of the two countries, expires in April 2011.
The document regulated the conditions of the functioning in Tajikistan of a group of border troops of Russia's Federal Security Service, represented by a small group of advisers after Russia's withdrawal of its border troops from Tajikistan in the summer of 2005.
Russian border guards protected the Pyandzh frontier for almost 110 years. They have protected southern borders of the Commonwealth of
Independent States for the past 13 years.
From 1992 through 2005, Russian border guards in Tajikistan detained more than 3,000 border violators.
There were 535 clashes on the Tajik Afghan border in 13 years, and
1,378 times of shelling of border guards squads and outposts. Over this period, border guards seized 1,003 units of firearms - from shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles to machine guns and assault rifles, and more than 447,000 rounds of various ammunition.
They destroyed 335 weapons and ammunition caches. The Russian border guards made a significant contribution to the fight against drug trafficking. They seized and destroyed over 30 tons of narcotics, with heroin making one-third of the haul.
In rebuffing terrorists' attacks, 161 border guards were killed, and another 362 were injured. Seventeen of them received top decorations (Hero of Russia). A majority was given that award posthumously.
At present, Russia and Tajikistan continue military and border
cooperation. Military historian Viktor Dubovistky said in an interview to Itar-Tass that 230 Tajik students study at Russian military colleges, and that 25 Tajik officers are trainees at the Border Guard Troops Academy in Moscow.
Last year alone, Russia pilots transported 2,376 passengers who were Tajik servicemen, and delivered over 75 tons of cargos to border outposts in Pamir highlands.
