11 June 2004 02:51
Poland to increase anti-smuggling measures on Kaliningrad
KALININGRAD. June 11 (Interfax) - Poland's General Councilor in Kaliningrad Yaroslav Chubinski said that
ant-smuggling measures will be increased on the border of Poland and the Kaliningrad region.
"The increase of control measures by Poland is caused, in the first place, by the fact that local citizens are
gaining large profits from small-scale, near-border trade," Chubinski told Interfax on Friday.
He said the Polish authorities are concerned about the fact that
almost none of the young people who grew up near the Polish-Russian
"This does not help the economic development of nearby regions, which have an unemployment rate of about
30%," he said.
He said the number of officers at checkpoints on the Polish side of the border will be increased by almost 100%.
"Experts who used to work at the Polish-German border have been sent there. The work they did on the
German-Polish border was carried out in accordance with the strict rules of the EU, including work to prevent
small-scale smuggling," Chubinski said.
border in the Kaliningrad region want to do anything but smuggling to earn their living.
"We intend to counter this dangerous tendency, not only by increasing the number of measure to prevent trade
near the border. The EU will provide considerable financial assistance to develop these regions' economy,"
Chubinski said.
According to his data, the EU is planning to accept a 10 million euro program to aid the development of
Lithuania's and Poland's border relations, which envisages the carrying out of economic projects on both sides
of the Russia-EU border. [RU EUROPE EEU EMRG POL ASIA PL] aa tl
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