Better border protection for Belarusian nuclear power plant

The construction of two new border outposts will begin in the area of the Smorgon border group in Belarus in the Baltic direction in 2015, BelTA learned from Leonid Maltsev, Chairman of the State Border Committee of Belarus, at the session of the commission on the state border policy on 19 February.

The border outposts Ostrovets and Molodechno will be created to bolster the state border protection near the Belarusian nuclear power plant. According to the source, money has been allocated. The design documents are supposed to be ready by late February. The construction of the border outposts will start by mid-2015.

During the session Deputy Chairman of the Grodno Oblast Executive Committee Yuri Shuleiko said that work is in progress in the oblast to develop the state border infrastructure. In 2014 upon the initiative of the Belarusian border service the oblast administration approved new limits for the border zone in Grodno Oblast. The oblast administration spent about Br1 billion on implementing projects outlined by the state border policy. The money was used to make and install new information signs that mark the border zone and the accomplishment of border checkpoints for local border traffic. The installation of a fence around the simplified border checkpoint Porecheye was completed in early 2015 in addition to the construction of a water well. The simplified border checkpoint Petyulevtsy in Shchuchin District was reconstructed and commissioned.

The draft oblast budget for 2015 provides for spending Br1.157 billion on border policy projects.

Grodno Oblast is home to the Grodno border group, the Smorgon border group, and the Lida border unit.