DUSHANBE, December 3 (RIA Novosti) - The Russian border troops in Tajikistan have summed up the activities of their operative service and the handover of the Pamir sector of the Tajik-Afghan border under the control of Tajikistan's state border guard committee, Colonel Alexander Kondratyev, spokesman for the border department of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) in Tajikistan told RIA Novosti on Friday.
According to him, since the beginning of 2004 Russian border guards detained 286 trespassers and seized 3,758 kg of drugs (including 2,400 kg of heroin) on the Tajik-Afghan border, two border guards were killed and two wounded as a result of 21 battles with trespassers.
Key tasks for 2005 were outlined: organized handover to Tajikistan's border troops of the Tajik-Afghan sectors guarded by the Moscow and Pyandzh border units and the reform of the Russian border service in Tajikistan into an operative border unit of the Russian Federal Security Service in this country.
