SOCIETY
Azerbaijani chairman of State Border Service attends 71st conference of CIS border chiefs
Baku, June 7 (AZERTAC). Chairman of the Azerbaijan State Border Service, Lieutenant-General Elchin Guliyev has attended the 71st conference of the commanders of the border forces of the CIS member-states held in Sochi on June 3.
The Council considered a number of issues in Sochi, including the development of the situation in the areas close to the external borders of the CIS countries of the Central Asian region.
The participants in the conference analyzed the ongoing processes taking into account the so-called Factor 2014 (the planned withdrawal of the International Security Assistance Force from Afghanistan) and the work on a draft resolution of the CIS council of heads of state on providing assistance to Tajikistan in reinforcing border security at the Tajik-Afghan section of the CIS external border.