Russia recently removed the last of its 15,000 border troops.
An agreement on the status of border troops was signed by five states.
The command of the border troops was based in Pätz.
No response at all from North Korean border troops either.
The two sides also agreed to maintain border troops "at a reasonable distance".
Quotas were agreed for financing of joint armed forces and border troops.
Georgia would also like American help in replacing the Russian border troops.
His death occurred along with the deaths of another four East German border troops in quite a short time.
That was when Ukrainian border troops dug a trench along it.
Such incidents led to a very strained relationship between the two opposing sets of German border troops.