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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
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> 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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