State members of CIS intend to form groups of border forces for regulating crisis situations on external borders of Commonwealth.

Draft Action plan for implementing the Protocol on approving the Regulation is discussed at the meeting of the expert group taking place in Moscow, informs press service of CIS executing committee.
The action plan is intended for 2012-2015.

“The states will create special units that will be included in the groups and, in case of threats, they will be concentrated in one place and sent to that region,” told head of the cooperation on international treaty of Border Troops Commanders of the CIS Anatoly Goncharov, reports ITAR-TASS.

The second document is tensely connected with the first. The Agreement is on the Formation and use of joint teams of specialists (experts), the border agencies to quickly respond to threats to border security at external borders. The joint groups of experts are not military units.

After the final approval by experts, the Action Plan and the Agreement will be submitted to the Council of CIS Head of States.