EU, UNDP help Georgia and Azerbaijan raise sanitary, veterinary standards at the border
The total cost of the project was €2.6 million. Photo: Ministry of Finance press office.
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The European Union (EU) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have helped the governments of Georgia and Azerbaijan to raise standards of sanitary, veterinary and phytosanitary border control.
The EU and UNDP have also been involved in improving border management infrastructure and equipment and enhancing the institutional capacities of border management agencies.
Georgian and Azerbaijani government officials, in addition to representatives of the EU and UNDP, travelled to the Red Bridge border crossing point last Friday for the opening ceremony of the new facilities: an up-to-date and fully equipped sanitary, veterinary and phytosanitary inspection point on the Georgian side of the border and a new customs terminal on the Azerbaijani end of the Red Bridge.
The project ran for three years.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs has announced plans to control the so-called green-border better, the most problematic parts on the border territory some use to enter or leave the country illegally.
Georgia’s border police have detained five foreign citizens for illegal crossing the country’s state border. The Interior Ministry did not identify the detainees but announced they were citizens of Bangladesh.
Georgia’s border police have detained four foreign citizens for illegal crossing the country’s state border.
Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia Giorgi Mgebrishvili along with US Ambassador Ian Kelly opened the Command and Control Center on Georgian-Armenian state border called Sadakhlo.