Firm perimeter fences (razor wire) have been erected around five border posts to guard against the porousness of border-lines;

The mission strongly endorses such an approach, given the porousness of State borders and the ease with which weapons and combatants circulate in the subregion.

One aspect of these weaknesses relates to the inadequacy of border controls and the porousness of the border between the Darfur region and neighbouring countries.

That's, uh, that's tough talk coming from the guy who thought that impregnating a ceramic with aerosolized metal would increase porousness without losing strength.

Given the porousness of the Transdniestrian section of the Moldovan-Ukrainian border, there are no guarantees that the illegally manufactured or trafficked armaments will not reach other conflicts zones in the future.

Access to the US from many countries in Latin America ismuch easier than from Europe or Asia, owing to the volume oftraffic, the number of flights, the comparative laxity of exitcontrols, and the porousness of borders.

The porousness of our borders, the spread of poverty, underemployment, the weakness of security forces and the proliferation of small arms and light weapons that I have mentioned are all factors that lead to the entrenchment and expansion of those armed gangs, who may be based in a country neighbouring their theatre of operations.