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Estonia planning to build fence on some sections of border with Russia

BC, Tallinn, 04.03.2016.Print version
Estonia is to build a fence on some sections of the border with Russia to prevent people from illegally crossing the border, a spokesperson for the Police and Border Guard Board told BNS, cites LETA.

"Depending of the particularity of a section of the border it is necessary to build a fence on some sections to support electronic supervision, but it is a very small part of constructing the eastern border," Helen Neider-Veerme, head of the office for integrated border management at the Police and Border Guard Board, told BNS on March 3 evening.

 

"The priority is to build the infrastructure and implement information technology so that in the future it would be possible to detect an illegal border crossing early and react to incidents fast," she added.

 

Technical solutions have to make it possible to use collected information as evidence when processing offenses connected to the border, Neider-Veerme said.

 

According to Neider-Veerme the main thing is that systems on the border have to guarantee fast detection of a border breach so that it would be possible to react operatively to such cases. "A fence would be placed on sections where it is necessary to stop people from quickly crossing the border," she added.

 

The official could not say how many fences and on how big sections of the border these would be built.

 

Estonia's goal is to build a modern state border in the next four years and the construction is to take place in stages, she said.

 

Latvian State Border Guard chief Normunds Garbars said on Thursday that Latvia is planning to build a 2.7-meter-high fence on Latvia's border with Russia which will be equipped with barbed wire. The State Border Guard has signed an agreement worth 1.8 million euros for the construction of the first 24 kilometers of the fence this year. Overall, the fence will be built in several areas, and will be 92 kilometers in length. Furthermore, it will be possible to expand the fence to 193 kilometers on the 276 km border area with Russia. He said that 92 kilometers will be sufficient, as there are natural obstructions like swamps in other border areas which hinder illegal border crossing. Work on the creation of the border-zone is planned to be completed by 2019.






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