The Belarusian leader discussed these issues today, when receiving a report from the Head of the State Border Committee Anatoly Lappo. Protection of borders, combating drug trafficking, smuggling, and even extremism are within the authority of the committee.
Last year, the situation on the border was not quiet: provocations by neighbors, NATO exercises, and redeployment of troops closer to Belarus. 12 channels of drugs trafficking were revealed and 45 extremists were arrested. The number of violators is about two thousand. A monitoring center has been launched at Khoiniki outpost. Within a hundred kilometers, the border with Ukraine can now be seen to a centimeter. At the end of the report, the President signed the decision on the protection of the state border.
Although the whole year 2020 was about COVID and isolation, 9 million people and 4 million vehicles passed through the Belarusian borders. Even the imposition of sanctions from some countries does not cancel the obligations of Belarus as a transit power, which even in the toughest COVID months passed trucks with goods and products for third countries. This is part of the Good-Neighborhood Belt. Official Minsk intends to further develop this concept with those of its neighbors, who are willing to work and earn money together.
Border security as basis of state. Alexander Lukashenko approves decisions to protect state border in 2021
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