A meeting of the extended Board of the Ministry of State Security of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic was held in the building of the state administration, at which they summed up the operational activities of the bodies and departments of the ministry for 2018, and outlined the main tasks of ensuring the state security of the republic in 2019.
The Board was attended by the President, members of the PMR Government, heads of state administrations of cities and districts, chairmen of local councils, heads of departments and operational staff of the department. The leadership of the ministry reported on the implementation of presidential instructions and decisions of the collegiums of the Ministry of State Security of the Pridnestrovian Ministry of Foreign Affairs held in 2018. In addition to the results of activities in 2018, measures have been indicated for the improvement of the security system and the improvement of the state border of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. More than 15 million citizens and more than 5 million vehicles crossed the border of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic during the past year. The staff of the Border Department detained about eight hundred violators of the state border, 717 were brought to administrative responsibility.
One of sounded today reports is devoted to the results of the work of the Operational Headquarters to combat terrorism.
The Head of the Ministry of State Security of the PMR, Valery Gebos, summing up the activities of the ministry, focused on the state and the changing nature of the threats to the security of the Pridnestrovian state and voiced the priorities facing the department in 2019.
The President of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, having heard the reports, outlined the difficulties faced by the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, as well as the peculiarities of the geopolitical situation of the state. Referring to the provisions of the Pridnestrovian Development Strategy for 2019-2026, Vadim Krasnoselsky outlined the main areas of activity of the Ministry in the medium term. Among them there is strengthening the legislative framework governing the activities of the Ministry of State Security of the PMR; countering terrorism and extremism; arrangement of the state border of the PMR; capacity building; increase of the professional and ethical level of the staff of the Border Department of the Ministry of State Security; The President of the PMR paid attention to the appearance of the border guards, who meet and escort guests of Pridnestrovie.
Concluding his speech, Vadim Krasnoselsky thanked the staff of the state security bodies of the PMR for the work.