Police of Belarus and Russia will create a safe corridor on the Moscow-Minsk highway in 2010

September 4, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. Belarusian and Russian police will create a safe corridor on the Moscow-Minsk highway in 2010. This was announced today at a press conference by the head of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Smolensk Region, Yuri Sterlikov, reports a BELTA correspondent. The "Safe Corridor" project involves the organization of work of police units of Belarus and Russia on the Moscow-Minsk highway on channels with the same radio frequencies, as well as constant communication between border police departments. "This will allow us to promptly inform each other about committed offenses and respond to incidents in adjacent territories," explained Yuri Sterlikov. Work on the implementation of the project is underway, and funds have been allocated for these purposes. "This issue is planned to be resolved next year," noted the head of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Smolensk Region. The press conference was held as part of a two-day working meeting of the management staff of the internal affairs bodies of the Smolensk and Pskov regions, the Moscow and North-Western Transport Internal Affairs Directorates of the Railway Transport Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, and the Vitebsk, Minsk, and Mogilev regions, and transport internal affairs bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus. The event was dedicated to issues of increasing the effectiveness of cross-border cooperation between the departments of the two states in the fight against crime, and the exchange of advanced forms and methods of work in various areas. -0-