31 July 2007
Russian government approves drafting program for development of Union State border infrastructure in 2007 through 2011
The Russian government has approved the proposal for drafting a program on the development of the infrastructure at the border of the Belarusian-Russian Union State in 2007 through 2011, Russian media outlets reported on Monday.
The proposal was submitted by the Federal Security Service (FSB) and approved by Minsk.
The Russian government ordered the FSB to submit the proposal to the Union State Council of Ministers and recommended selecting the service as Russia's ordering party under the program.
Priorities of the new program were discussed in Belarus this past June at a meting of the Union State's Border Committee. Vladimir Pronichev, deputy director of the Russian border control service, then said that the program was estimated to cost three billion Russian rubles.
Under a similar program implemented between 2002 and 2006, 26 facilities were built on Belarus' border with Latvia and Lithuania alone.
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