Finland’s Minister of the Interior (Mikkonen): “It’s important to look into fencing parts of Finnish-Russian border”
Finland’s Minister of the Interior (Mikkonen): “It’s important to look into fencing parts of Finnish-Russian border”
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MINISTER of the Interior Krista Mikkonen (Greens) on Tuesday confirmed she is in favour of exploring the possibility of building a fence on the border between Finland and Russia.
“No one is thinking that the entire 1,300-kilometre border should be fenced up. There are areas where the risk [of illegal crossings] is higher,” she underscored in an interview on YLE Aamu on Tuesday.“They’re areas with settlements on both sides of the border and with old roads and routes – the kind of places where it could be easy to enter.”
The Finnish Border Guard estimated in a recent report that building a fence on up to 260 kilometres of the border is warranted in light of changes in the security environment of Finland. Pasi Kostamovaara, the chief of the Border Guard, told Helsingin Sanomat yesterday that the agency is prepare to adopt the new rules and practices as soon as on Friday.
He also viewed that the fence would be required particularly in, for example, emergencies where large numbers of migrants are brought to the border to apply pressure on Finland.
“Our eastern border isn’t an exception to the eastern border of the European Union.
at first we need a fence at the african ports.
Make Russia pay for it.
And then she fainted!
Could use a few n2 mines on that border