Russia rebuffs border troops from Tajik-Afghan
"A
broader
basing
of
Russian
border
guards
on
the
Tajik-Afghan
border
is
not
on
the
agenda,
and
neither
Moscow
nor
Dushanbe
will
be
raising
the
issue,"
the
Russian
diplomat
told
a
magazine
yesterday
reacting
to
media
reports
on
the
on-going
Russian-Tajik
border
cooperation
talks
in
Dushanbe.
"Russia and Tajikistan are coordinating a draft agreement on border issue cooperation at the expert level, with the view of optimising the parameters, forms and guidelines for interaction in this important sphere," he noted.
The term of the inter-government agreement, signed in 2005 and ratified by the parliaments of the two countries, expires in Apr 2011.
The document regulated the conditions of the functioning in Tajikistan of a group of border troops of Russia's Federal Security Service, represented by a small group of advisers after Russia's withdrawal of its border troops from Tajikistan in the summer of 2005.
PTI (Itar-Tass)