Subject: Russia begins handover of Tajik-Afghan border<br/>
Date: Nov 15, 2004 @ 22:20<br/>
Author: Christian Berghänel (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Christian_Bergh=E4nel?= &lt;christian.berghanel@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1328047173">More on the Tajik-Afghan border.<br/>
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/Christian Berghänel, Sweden<br/>
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Subject: RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 8, No. 215, Part I, 15 November 2004<br/>
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&gt; RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 8, No. 215, Part I, 15 November 2004<br/>
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&gt; RUSSIA BEGINS HANDOVER OF TAJIK-AFGHAN BORDER. Major General<br/>
&gt; Nuralisho Nazarov, commander of Tajikistan&#39;s border forces, said on<br/>
&gt; 12 November that Russian border guards have begun to transfer the<br/>
&gt; Pamir section of the Tajik-Afghan border to Tajikistan&#39;s Border<br/>
&gt; Control Committee, ITAR-TASS reported. Committee Chairman Lieutenant<br/>
&gt; General Abdurahmon Azimov said that the handover is starting with the<br/>
&gt; Ishkoshim section of the border, Asia Plus-Blitz reported. &quot;Russian<br/>
&gt; border guards are leaving their Tajik colleagues all of the moveable<br/>
&gt; property including military hardware and ammunition,&quot; Azimov said. He<br/>
&gt; added that after the Ishkoshim handover, the Russian-Tajik working<br/>
&gt; group &quot;will leave for the Khorugh border detachment, and then Qalai<br/>
&gt; Khum. All three border detachments in the Pamir section will be<br/>
&gt; transferred to Tajik border guards by mid-December.&quot; Lieutenant<br/>
&gt; General Aleksandr Manilov, deputy head of Russia&#39;s Federal Border<br/>
&gt; Service, is currently in Tajikistan to supervise the transfer for the<br/>
&gt; Russian side, Avesta reported. According to Asia Plus, the Ishkoshim<br/>
&gt; section is 569 kilometers long, Khorugh 212 kilometers, and Qalai<br/>
&gt; Khum 173 kilometers. Tajik border guards took over 73 kilometers of<br/>
&gt; the latter section in 1998. DK<br/>
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