| 5 June 2007 The 10-th Session of the Council of Heads of Border Departments of the Baltic Sea States started on 6 June in Turku, Finland. Within two days the session’s participants will review the activity of the Council of Heads of the Border Departments of the Baltic Sea region states, determine priorities and work out the directions of its further functioning, as well as to cover issues of the multilateral cooperation in the sphere of fight against trans border crime in the Baltic region. The Council of the Baltic Sea region states was founded in March, 1992. It consists of 11 Baltic Sea countries, namely: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Russia and Sweden as well as the European Commission. The Council of the Baltic Sea region states is a structure that coordinates a multilateral intergovernmental interaction in the Baltic Sea region and is a forum for its member-states’ political dialogue. The delegation of Belarus, headed by the Chairman of the State Border Guard Committee Colonel Igor Rachkovsky will participate in the session as an observer. Belarus will seek to participate in frontier operations held in the region and in bilateral border cooperation with the representatives of the neighbouring countries (Russia, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia) and other European states (Finland, Germany, Sweden). A meeting with senior officials of the EU Border Agency “FRONTEX” is scheduled to take place.
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