MOSCOW GOVERNMENT, RUSSIA’S BORDER GUARD DEPARTMENT OF FSB IN ABKHAZIA SIGNED “COOPERATION PROGRAM” FOR 2010-2012
05/02/2010 09:00 ABKHAZIA, SUKHUM
Today in Sukhum the Moscow Government and the Border guard department of FSB of Russia in the Republic of Abkhazia have signed a “Cooperation Program” for 2010-2012. The chief of the Border guard department General Jury Zviryk and a representative of the subdivision of the CIS and Baltic countries of Moscow’s department of external and economic relations Valery Sapozhnikov put their signatures to the document.
Russia’s Ambassador Plenipotentiary and Extraordinary to Abkhazia Semyon Grigoriev attended the signing ceremony. He expressed hope that “today's event will have positive consequences in accomplishing the Russian Federation’s tasks in the Republic of Abkhazia in further establishment of close allied relations between the two countries”.
The Ambassador reminded that the other day, speaking in Russia’s FSB, the President Dmitry Medvedev had characterized the task of Abkhazia’s and South Ossetia’s external borders safeguarding as one of the priorities. “In Abkhazia the Border guard department of FSB of Russia copes with this task with dignity”, the diplomat said. At that he expressed gratitude to Abkhazia’s leadership for “every kind of assistance rendered to the Russian Border guards in accomplishing their tasks in the republic”.
“It’s well known how much the Moscow Government has already done for Abkhazia for a long time and rather efficiently. It was reaffirmed in November when the mayor of the Russian capital Jury Luzhkov was on a visit to Sukhum”, Grigoriev added.
According to him, upon signature of the Cooperation Program “new possibilities of activity of these two large structures in Abkhazia” appear. “The Moscow Government takes upon itself a number of obligations to render assistance to the Border guard department, to provide social protection to the department’s officers, to improve their service conditions in the Republic of Abkhazia. We consider it essentially important”, the diplomat emphasized.
In turn the Russian border guards, according to Grigoriev, will also render assistance to the Government of Moscow in accomplishing a number of tasks first of all connected with patriotic education of young Muscovites.
“On the whole we hope that the signed Program won’t have the departmental character only. It is a document which will contribute in accomplishing our common tasks and strengthening brotherly cooperation between Russia and Abkhazia”, Russia’s ambassador to Abkhazia stressed.
