Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Russian jurisdiction over Tajik border to Afghanistan.<br/>
Date: Oct 08, 2004 @ 02:05<br/>
Author: Lowell G. McManus (&quot;Lowell G. McManus&quot; &lt;mcmanus71496@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1842927369">I heard this explained on TV back at the time of the Coalition war against the<br/>
Taliban regime.<br/>
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It seems that Tajikistan had lacked the resources to guard its Afghanistan<br/>
border sufficiently against drugs and terrorism.  The Russian Federation,<br/>
realizing that Tajikistan was its own first line of defense against both, had<br/>
offered to provide border control down there.  Tajikistan was glad for the help,<br/>
so that&#39;s how it was.<br/>
<br/>
I can only speculate, but now that Afghanistan is relatively more civilized,<br/>
perhaps the Russians don&#39;t see quite the need to continue.<br/>
<br/>
I wonder if Russia was assisting Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan at all on their<br/>
borders with Afghanistan.<br/>
<br/>
Lowell G. McManus<br/>
Leesville, Louisiana, USA<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="qreply"> ----- Original Message ----- <br/>
From: &quot;aletheiak&quot; &lt;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:aletheiak@...">aletheiak@...</a>&gt;<br/>
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Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 8:19 AM<br/>
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Russian jurisdiction over Tajik border to<br/>
Afghanistan.<br/>
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--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, Christian Berghänel<br/>
&lt;christian.berghanel@s...&gt; wrote:<br/>
&gt; The following news from RFE/RL on September 27 and 30<br/>
tells about the status of the Tajik-Afghan border. Does this mean<br/>
that Russia and Afghanistan share border allthough they&#39;re not<br/>
neighbours? </span></blockquote></div>