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Border security bodies study coordination on airplane security

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The heads of Arab border security bodies, airports and harbors are studying today in Tunis methods of enhancing coordination to combat smuggling attempts within developing procedures to protect the safety of civil airplanes.

The heads of the border security bodies are starting their fourth conference today which will last two days within the general trusteeship of the Arab interior cabinet and will be inaugurated by the Cabinet's secretary-general Ahmed Mohemmed El-Salam.

The conference will focus on coordination using modern methods and advanced techniques in the field of border control. The conference will discuss the possibilities of reducing the costs of these developed methods that involve satellite use and lasers, requiring large expenses that any state could not afford alone, as well as discussing the methods of developing procedures to protect airplanes and passengers in international and domestic airports.

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