According to head of the main department of the Russian Interior Ministry for the Far Eastern federal district general of the police Anatoly Zolotarev, during his working visit to Harbin the sides signed a protocol on the joint program of action in the sphere of combating crime connected with the illegal trafficking and smuggling of drugs, weapons, cultural values, organized illegal crossing of the border, murders, robbery attacks, taking hostages, crimes committed by organised transnational criminal groups as well combating terrorism, and extremism.
The sides determined the mutual exchange of information about disclosed channels, sources, and ways of illegal transportation of weapons, forest, live goods, narcotic means and psychotropic substances via the Chinese-Russian border.
An understanding was reached that if it is necessary the operative-search and investigation-operative groups headed by the corresponding heads of the units and liaison officers can be sent to the neighbouring country for conducting operative-search and investigation measures and detaining criminals.
Specific time-limits have been established for giving the necessary information. Thus, each of the sides, having received a request for help, is obliged to answer to the request in the course of 10 days, and in emergency situations the answer should be given during two days.
The Russian delegation included representatives of the interior ministries of the Sakhalin, Amur, Kamchatka regions and the Jewish autonomous region, as well the Primorye and Khabarovsk Territories.
