The strike kept nurses out of hospitals, teachers out of schools and customs officials from border points.
All Indian airports and other border points have been told to prevent the Italian ambassador Daniele Mancini from leaving if he tries to do so.
Since then, the committee has directed and funded the application of new security measures and advanced security technologies at all border points and in respect of immigrant and refugee screening.
Every day, at 17 border points, some 20, 000 Ukrainians cross into Hungary, Slovakia or Romania, where they buy food and clothes to sell back home, often in return for smuggled petrol and cigarettes, which are much cheaper in Ukraine.
Already at various border crossing points, customs authorities are having people who appear sick taken to a secondary inspection area for further evaluation.
Crossings at Polish border-points fell by more than two-thirds.
Nationalist politicians warier of cross-community amity warn that just a few violent incidents caused by the settling of old scores could ruin this budding Greek-Turkish friendship and close the border crossing points again.
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On the Mexican border, crossing points in El Paso, Texas, and San Ysidro, California, handled a third of the traffic.
The busiest crossing points along the Canadian border were in the Buffalo, New York-Niagara area and Detroit.
Their community awareness camps educate families in rural villages and city slums about the dangers of sex trafficking, and a daily patrol at crossing points along the India-Nepal border successfully rescues an average of four Nepali girls a day.
The Zetas, who are estimated to have more than ten thousand fighters, control virtually the entire east coast of Mexico, and have laid claim to several of the busiest cargo crossing points on the U.S. border, including Matamoros, Reynosa, and Nuevo Laredo.
Last month, the head of the Caribbean region for the Drug Enforcement Administration told the EFE news agency that increased security at the Mexico-U.S. border contributed to making Puerto Rico one of the principal entry points for drug trafficking in the United States.
Saudi Arabia's oil minister, Ali Naimi, points to an unexplored area on the Iraqi-Saudi border the size of California, and argues that such untapped resources could add 200 billion barrels to his country's tally.
He points out how infrastructure, such as Pakistan's small border post, must be improved on the other side.
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