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05/02/2010 09:10 ABKHAZIA, SUKHUM
A General Jury Zviryk’s press conference held on Thursday, February 4 was dedicated to the operations activity results of the Border guard department of FSB of Russia in Abkhazia for 2009.
The Border guard department of FSB of Russia in the Republic of Abkhazia was raised on April 30, 2009 in an effort to realize the Agreement between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Abkhazia on joint efforts in protection of state borders of the Republic of Abkhazia.
General Zviryk called prevention of trespassing the border, smuggling and armed gangs entering in the Republic of Abkhazia among the Border guard department’s main tasks.
“It took the Border guard department’s officers much effort to enter and deploy units of the Border guard department. The necessity to do a lot of work settling down on a new location in tent camps and to fulfill the task of protecting the Abkhaz-Georgian border, mobilized each and every border guard’s efforts”, the Lieutenant-General said. According to him, thanks to teamwork of the Border guard department and the leadership of the Republic of Abkhazia two thirds of Border guard units had already moved to proper buildings by the end of fall 2009.
All Border guard units were manned and started fulfilling operations tasks in a short space of time. “Many-sided tasks the Russian border guards in the Republic of Abkhazia fulfill, can only be compared to many-sided functions of the Border guard service of FSB of Russia as a whole”, he said.
The chief of the Border guard department told journalists that by the end of 2009 as a result of operations activity of the Border guard department of FSB of Russia in the Republic of Abkhazia 433 people had been detained for violating the state border and the state border regime. “16 caches with arms, ammunition and explosives have been detected. An antiaircraft emplacement ZU-23, four sub-machine guns, two carbines, two pistols, over 3000 pieces of ammunition, more than 200 mortar and anti-tank mines, over 400 kg of explosives, 103 charges for a grenade cup discharge, 14 shells for a “LARS” multiple launch rocket system have been withdrawn and destroyed. 41 facts of drone use by the Georgian side have been registered. Smuggling goods worth of over Rub 1 mln have been detained”, Jury Zviryk said.
The Border guard department co-operates with the Republic of Abkhazia’s Government, the Defense Ministry and the State Security Service leadership, as well as with local governments, what, according to the General, “has certainly affected positively the strengthening of friendship between the states and reliable protection of Abkhazia’s borders”.
General Zviryk added that the Government of the Republic of Abkhazia had allocated lands to the Border guard department for military camps and engineering structures construction. Now border guard infrastructure projects are under construction on five sites.
The Lieutenant-General thanked Abkhazia’s leadership and “siloviki” for assistance in realizing the “Agreements between the Republic of Abkhazia and the Russian Federation on joint efforts in protection of state borders of the Republic of Abkhazia”.
Jury Zviryk answered journalists’ questions.
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