Russian policemen to cooperate with Abkhazia, S Ossetia colleagues

ITAR-TASS
November 12, 2009

MOSCOW - The Russian Interior Ministry will cooperate with its Abkhazian and South Ossetian colleagues in joint struggle against crime, Itar-Tass learnt at the press centre of the Russian Interior Ministry.

"Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliev held a meeting on Wednesday with his Abkhazian counterpart Otar Khetsiya, at which the sides signed agreements between the Russian and Abkhazian governments on cooperation in struggle against crime as well as between the two ministries," a source said.

According to documents, the law enforcement bodies of the two countries will cooperate in prevention, spotting, staving off and laying bare crimes against the personality and property, extremist activities, including terror acts, as well as funding of terrorism.

"The Russian and Abkhazian interior ministries will also cooperate in struggle against corruption, organised crime and will counter illicit trafficking of arms and explosives," the Russian Interior Ministry reported.

"The agreements also regulate cooperation in such spheres as prevention and exposure of crimes in the economy, information technologies and in intellectual property," the ministry noted.

"The sides specially emphasised that the signed agreements between the Russian and Abkhazian governments on cooperation in struggle against crime will give an impetus to partnership of law enforcement bodies of the two states," the ministry underlined.

Besides, Nurgaliev met the South Ossetian interior minister on Wednesday. The sides signed an agreement on cooperation between the two ministries at the meeting.

"The document also provides for main forms and areas of perking up cooperation in struggle against transborder organised crime and international terrorism, practical aid in laying bare crimes, including terrorist activities, joint purpose-oriented and preventive operations, exchange of groups of officers of the ministries as well as exchange of important information," the ministry stressed.