Union State Border Committee to discuss border security in Novopolotsk

VITEBSK, 18 June (BelTA) - The issues of boosting the Union State border security will be discussed in Novopolotsk, Belarus, on 20 June, BelTA learnt from aide to the press service chief of the Polotsk border detachment Denis Glebko.

The 40th session of the Union State Border Committee will take place in Novopolotsk on 20 June. Attending the session will be State Secretary of the Union State Grigory Rapota, members of the Union State Parliamentary Assembly, top officials from the Border Service of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation and the State Border Committee of Belarus and Deputy Chairman of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee. The participants to the session will discuss an action plan to boost border security of the Union State.

Denis Glebko noted that in order to enhance border security and implement the Belarus Border Security Concept for 2008-2017 some measures have been undertaken. Particularly, a new administrative building of the Urbany border outpost was commissioned in 2012. This border outpost, which is situated within the patrol area of the Polotsk border detachment, is situated in Braslav District and is part of the Urbany border control department (the Belarusian-Lithuanian border sector). The construction was financed from the Union State budget. In July 2013 an administrative building of the Vidzy border outpost, which is part of the Vidzy border control department, is set to be commissioned, too. The Vidzy border control department is also located in Braslav District at the Belarusian-Lithuanian border.