RUSSIAN BORDER TROOPS DETAINED 36 TRESPASSERS OF ARMENIAN STATE BORDER WITHIN 2.5 MONTHS OF 2005

PanARMENIAN.Net - In March the servicemen of the Border Department of the Federal Security Service of Russia detained an ethnic Kurd Turkish citizen, who had tried to trespass the state border of Armenia "in search of better life," Arminfo news agency reported. As Press Secretary of the Border Department of the Federal Security Service of Russia, colonel Ivan Zhirenko reported today, the detained trespasser is already conveyed to the National Security Service of Armenia and "work is held with him to clear out the circumstances." In Ivan Zhirenko's words, within the period of report Russian border troops have detained 36 trespassers of the state border of Armenia, 35 out of them - at the checkpoint of Zvartnots international airport, 1 - the aforementioned Turkish citizen, detained at the segment of the Gyumri border detachment of the Border Department of the Federal Security Service of Russia. Within the same period contraband of $18 thousand is conveyed to the respective bodies of Armenia.