MULTILATERAL BORDER COOPERATION DISCUSSED IN FAR EAST








VLADIVOSTOK, MARCH 14, 2001. /RIA Novosti correspondent  Larisa Beloivan/ -- A first conference of experts on multilateral border cooperation in the north-western part of the Pacific  region has completed in Vladivostok, an administrative centre of the Maritime Territory, Russia's Far East. 


	According to the Pacific regional department of the Russian Federal Frontier Service (FSS), the two-day working meeting was attended by the delegations of the Russian Federal Frontier  Service, the Japanese Agency for Maritime Safety, the National  Agency of the Maritime Police of the Republic of Korea and the  U.S. Coastal Guard. 


	The conference objective is to define the structure and  functions of the National Border Coordination Centres, the FSS department noted. The decision to set up centres which could be able to uninterruptedly exchange information, coordinate activity of border services of the Asia-Pacific states conterminous to  Russia was adopted in December 2000 in Tokyo in the course of the first meeting of experts on border issues. 


	The experience of such cooperation has already been  accumulated in the Baltic region where small units are engaged in round-the-clock collection, analysis and exchange of  technological information.