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PETROZAVODSK, June 29. /Correspondent of ITAR-TASS Natalia Mikhalchenko/. Prospects of development of frontier cooperation have been discussed at the exit session of the Federation Council's CIS Affairs Committee in Petrozavodsk.
As the Committee chairman Vadim Gustov has informed ITAR-TASS, its basic purpose is to study positive and negative aspects of frontier cooperation development by the example of Karelia to define further trends of legislative work in this sphere.
Today there are two alternative variants to solve this problem either to define rules of cooperation within the framework of European regions one of which is formed by the Republic of Karelia and three frontier unions of communes of Finland, or to include this theme as a special section in the federal law which project is under consideration in the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
Karelia has been selected for studying this question as the most dynamical region on parameters of growth of frontier cooperation. The Federation Council's CIS Affairs Committee plans to distribute Karelian experience to special zones of cooperation created on borders of Russia with the CIS countries. Now there exist over ten zones.
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