According to the project brief, specially adapted combat robots "will undertake the proper measures to stop the illegal action almost autonomously with supervision of border guard officers".
During the Soviet era the KGB's responsibilities also included the protection of the country's political leadership, the supervision of border troops, and the general surveillance of the population.
In addition, European efforts to shift ceasefire talks from Cairo to the United Nations in New York are more sympathetic to Hamas' demands for a lifting of the siege and international supervision of border crossings and reconstruction of Gaza -- the very steps that could reduce Israeli control of the process.
"The mayor crossed the border with the direct approval and under the supervision of the border patrol supervisor at this port of entry," Eric Phillips, de Blasio's spokesman, told the AP on Tuesday.
He agreed to leave — again under the supervision of Russian border guards.
But the new moves are still ominous for Transdniestria, especially if they presage international supervision of the border, which an EU mission is considering.Genuinely free elections in Transdniestria would be hard to organise, given the lack of independent political parties or media and the omnipresent secret police.
Proposal no 5: Tougher global regulation Brown should forge ahead with his plans for an international college of supervisors to provide cross-border supervision of multinational banks.
Reporters saw the first 500 prisoners, many looking ill and exhausted, cross the border under supervision of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
The only deal that Egypt, the Palestinian Authority and possibly Israel would accept was one to reinstate the Palestinian Authority's control of the border under the supervision of European monitors and under the gaze of remote-operated Israeli cameras, along the lines of the same such agreement in 2005 but with an added role for Hamas.
Both sides claimed to be holding small towns near the two bigger cities. Meanwhile a Russian aid convoy was poised to cross the Russian side of the border under the supervision of the Red Cross.The European Union said it would pay €125m ($170m) in emergency compensation to fruit and vegetable growers hit by Russia's ban on most imported food from the EU in retaliation for sanctions.
