Belarus guarding of Union State external border with European Union reliable

Belarus has created a reliable system for guarding the 1,250-km-long Union State external border with the European Union. The statement was made today when Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko approved a strategy for guarding the State Border of Belarus in 2007. Chairperson of the State Border Troops Committee Alexander Pavlovskiy said, “Unlike at the Belarusian-Russian border, here we have a fully demarked border with the necessary infrastructure and an extensive network of border checkpoints on the main routes”. In his words, over the last three years Belarus has virtually rebuilt the 400-km-long border with Poland (the former Soviet border), cut a border guard vista, and replaced 95% of the frontier markers. Besides, as part of the fight against illegal migration Belarus still pays for maintenance of engineering facilities left at the border since the Soviet times. The official informed, in the Baltic section of the border a border guarding system has been created along the main lines of the concentration of efforts. A new five-year Union State programme has been worked out to complete the deployment of border guarding units in the Baltic section of the state border, see to the renovation of the Polish part of the border, as some outposts are more than 50 years old.