DUSHANBE, February 12, Asia-Plus  -- To be ready for cold weather Tajik border guards have been provided with additional bulk of fuel and foods, Khushnoud Rahmatulloyev, a spokesman for the main border directorate of the State Committee for National Security (GKNB), said in an interview with Asia-Plus.  

According to him, fuel, firewood and foodstuffs were delivered to frontier posts in remote mountain areas in the autumn already.  “The next bulk of foods and fuel was delivered to those frontier posts by helicopter in late January,” the spokesman said.

The spokesman added that some border units also get their electricity from solar power.  “In the districts where electricity rationing has been introduced, solar batteries are used to maintain communications of border units with the main border directorate in Dushanbe,” Rahmatulloyev said.