Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Border news - Kazakhstan-Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan
Date: Jul 27, 2004 @ 04:48
Author: Michael Kaufman (Michael Kaufman <mikekaufman79@...>)
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> > KAZAKH OFFICIALS COMPLAIN UZBEKISTAN SLOW IN
> MARKING COMMON BORDER.
> > Members of the official Kazakh Commission on
> Border Delimitation and
> > Demarcation told a press conference in Shymkent on
> 23 July that
> > Kazakhstan has already installed 270 markers on
> its common border
> > with Uzbekistan, while the Uzbek side has
> installed only nine,
> > Kazinform and khabar.kz reported the same day.
> The process of
> > marking the border has been under way for several
> months; the course
> > of the Kazakh-Uzbek border was determined through
> many years of
> > negotiations. Kazakh border officials said that
> after they had
> > complained to their Uzbek counterparts about the
> slow pace, Uzbek
> > officials said they lacked both money and
> equipment to work faster,
> > though they did not respond to a Kazakh offer of
> concrete posts. The
> > Kazakh officials added that some people in
> villages on the border are
> > still having trouble accepting the new border.
> Incidents in which
> > Kazakh citizens who strayed across the border were
> shot by Uzbek
> > border guards have caused tensions between the two
> countries in the
> > last year. BB
> >
> >
> > KYRGYZSTAN AND UZBEKISTAN UNABLE TO RESOLVE
> DISPUTES ABOUT COMMON
> > BORDER. The latest joint sessions of the Kyrgyz
> and Uzbek working
> > commissions on the delimitation and demarcation of
> borders, held from
> > 19 to 23 July, failed to resolve any of the
> disagreements over
> > disputed sections of the border, Fergana.ru
> reported on 23 July.
> > Most of the disputed sections are located in the
> Ferghana Valley,
> > which is shared by the two countries and
> Tajikistan. Some 169
> > kilometers of the 375-kilometer border between
> Kyrgyzstan's Batken
> > Oblast and Uzbekistan's Ferghana Oblast are in
> dispute. The sessions
> > of the working groups were followed on 24 July by
> a meeting of the
> > Kyrgyz-Uzbek Intergovernmental Commission in
> Bishkek, which discussed
> > expanding trade relations and cooperation on
> water, energy, and
> > environmental issues but apparently not the border
> disputes, RFE/RL's
> > Kyrgyz Service reported the same day. BB
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