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Saturday, 20.04.2024, 09:25
EUR 17 mln to be spent on creating Latvian-Russian border-zone
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Poznaka said that work on the creation of the border-zone is planned to be completed by 2019.
She said that the border-zone will help Latvia monitor and protect the EU's outer border, as well as substantially restrict the smuggling of goods and illegal immigrants, which in turn will help improve Latvia's economic stability.
Latvia's border with Russia is 270-km long, and the border-zone is planned to be established on the whole length of the border with Russia.
In regard to the construction of fences on the border with Russia, Poznaka said that fences will be built in areas where there is the highest risk of smuggling.
As reported, the Estonian Police and State Border Guard are planning to build a boundary fence that is 2.5 meter high on a little more than 100 kilometers of land border between Estonia and Russia, the Estonian newspaper Postimees reported in August.
The boundary fence would run without gaps from Varska to the Koidula border-crossing point. On swamp areas there would be no fence, as there the border line would only consist of border posts and patrolling tracks.
The estimated cost of the construction of the fence in Estonia's eastern border will amount to approximately EUR 71 million.
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