According to deputy chairman of the State Security Service, head of the border detachment Rustam Latipov, they discussed issues of guarding the Abkhaz-Georgian state border along the Ingur River, the situation in the border area.

There were announced the statistics of offenses at the state border. About 3 thousand people from among the local residents of the Gal district were detained for attempting to illegally cross the border from January 1 to April 1.

Russian border guards reported on technical innovations at the Ingur checkpoint, which allow Abkhazian and Russian border guards to exercise effective control of freight vehicles, in particular vehicles involved in repair work in the Ingur hydroelectric station's diversion tunnel.