By empty (10/18/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Konstantin Totsky and Valery Chkheidze, border guard service chiefs of Russia and Georgia, signed a protocol on increasing security on the Russia-Georgia border in Yerevan on Thursday. The protocol envisions regular information sharing between the two countries and joint border patrols. Totsky and Chkheidze indicated that the protocol comes as a follow- up to agreements the presidents of Russia and Georgia, Vladimir Putin and Eduard Shevardnadze, reached during a CIS summit in Chisinau.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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