OREANDA-NEWS. April 25, 2012. In Chernihiv with official visit there were delegations of the Department of the Federal Service of the Russian Federation on Drug Control in the Bryansk region and the Department of the Interior Ministry of the Gomel regional executive committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus.

To the Department of the MIA of Ukraine in Chernihiv region, the delegations have arrived on the basis of the Agreement between the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine and Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus on cooperation of law enforcement bodies of the border regions and the Federal Service of the Russian Federation for Drug Control on cooperation in combating against drug trafficking, psychotropic substances and their precursors.

During the course of the tripartite working meeting have been discussed issues of further development of cross-border cooperation to combat drug trafficking.

Participants of the meeting exchanged views on ways to improve coordination of concerted activities to combat the illicit traffic in narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, their analogues and precursors in the border area, discussed the issues of exchange of information concerning crimes linked with illicit trafficking in narcotic and psychotropic substances during preparation and holding in Ukraine of finals of European Football Championship 2012.

In particular, now on a regular basis will be carried out sharing of operational and service, reference, criminal and other information of mutual interest. The matter concerns the specific facts and events, individuals and entities involved or suspected of drug trafficking.

According to the signed Protocol parties will continue studying the best experience in the discussed problems, exchange and become familiar with organizational structures, normative regulatory acts that regulate the activity of structural subdivisions of the Interior of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.