SOME 100 SEPARATISTS ARRESTED ON RUSSIA-GEORGIA-AZERBAIJAN BORDER








YEREVAN, March 14, 2001 /from RIA Novosti correspondent Avet Demuryan/ -- Director of the Russian Federal Frontier Service colonel-general Konstantin Totsky currently on a working visit to Armenia announced that dozens of trespassers, including members of illegal armed formations, were being arrested at the Georgian and Azeri sectors of the Russian border thanks toughened control measures had been introduced there.


	According to him, borderguards have handed over some 100 arrested people suspected of participation in combat activities on Chechen territory to representatives of the corresponding agencies. Totsky stressed that it was very difficult to be on borderguard duty now that criminals often used illegal documents and passes allowing them access through the Russian state border. "Certainly, we can't know all criminals by sight thus leaving them a loop-hole," Totsky noted.