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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http://eng.gateway.kg/batken
The mentioned Batken Oblast is newly created (1999)
and thus not on many maps you will find on the
internet. Batken Oblast is the KG oblast which
factors into KGTJUZ.
Jesper posted a good map, but unfortunately gmane may
be having problems and only half of the image loads
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.culture.discuss.boundary-point/4261


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> > RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 8, No. 140, Part I, 26 July
> 2004
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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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