ARMENIA AND GEORGIA TO SIGN AGREEMENT ON FRONTIER SPHERE COOPERATION LATE JULY

PanARMENIAN.Net - At the end of July 2003 Armenia and Georgia will sign an intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in the boundary sphere. As head of the Georgian state department for frontier security Valeri Chkheidze told journalists, the present agreement was achieved in the course of the finished yesterday Armenian president Robert Kocharian's visit to Tbilisi. In Chkheidze's words, the cooperation in the boundary sphere implies the exchange of operative information. "Joint boundary-admissive stations with the assistance of donor-states will be as well opened", - he said. V. Chkheidze also informed that the parties agreed to activate the work on delimitation of Georgian-Armenian border. As the other day stated in this view by Georgian president Eduard Shevarnadze, this work should be accomplished by the end of 2004. "Unlike the other countries we do not have any contradictions with Armenia concerning this issue", - he said. It should be noted that the length of the Georgian-Armenian frontier is 206 kilometers.