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26.11.2010
I. Raczkowski: Russia and Belarus should pay more attention to the inner boarder
At the last Board of Union State Border Guard Committee Russia initiated an internal borders safety issue, Igor Raczkowski, the State Border Committee Chairman of Belarus, said on November 25 in Minsk.
At the last Board of Union State Border Guard Committee Russia initiated an internal borders safety issue, Igor Raczkowski, the State Border Committee Chairman of Belarus, said on November 25 in Minsk.
In the course of the press tour, dedicated to the implementation of programs and projects in the area of border and customs policies of the Union State, J. Raczkowski paid attention to the topic of the Russian-Belarusian border functioning.
"When I hear that there is no border between Belarus and Russia, I want to clarify that everyone understands – there is a border, it can not be that there is no border", - I. Raczkowski said. "No border means that the state does not exist" - he stressed. "The state border exists, but it is an internal boarder of the Union State, - I. Raczkowski clarified the peculiarity of the Russian-Belarusian border status. - It is clearly a special border regime, which provides for the absence of border and passport controls. " Continuing the theme of internal (from the viewpoint of the Union State, note soyuz . by ) Russian-Belarusian border, I. Raczkowski said that on November 10 in Pskov a joint meeting of the Board of the Union State Border Committee took place, at the end of which a general security plan on external borders of the Union State are traditionally signed. During the work of the Board, the Russian side raised the issue of increasing internal borders security regarding the Customs Union functioning. "If the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus services are more prepared, we are working in the context, having joint board committees, we know each other, but now we want to attract to this work and the Kazakh side, - I. Raczkowski said. - And clearly we should put more emphasis on internal borders. "
As an example, the Head of the Belarus Boarder Committee brought out the problem of queuing at the Russian-Belarusian border. "We say to the citizens that there is no border, but there were more queues than on the border between Belarus and Russia with a third country," - he recalled.
Returning to the internal borders security issue, I. Raczkowski said that between Belarus and Russia border services strategic interaction is organized. "On the Russian side we interact with the management of the Russian FSB border guards in the Pskov region, it interacts with the Polotsk border detachment, - I. Raczkowski said. - Smolensk control department with a separate service of active measures. Bryansk department cooperate with Gomel border control group . It means there is an interaction ".
At the same time, according to I. Raczkowski, every year the interaction of the border sides is getting better. "Previously bureaucratic issues were discussed, we had a meeting, the first question -" for", the second, the third -"for", signed, and the cultural program is started - he said. Today, every question is seriously debated. Russian and Belarusian sides claim their arguments, but that does not mean that there are differences. There are problems and we offer solution to them. "