The following was in the news
yesterday:
RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY, PRAGUE, CZECH
REPUBLIC
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RFE/RL
NEWSLINE Vol. 7, No. 46, Part I, 11 March 2003
KYRGYZ-UZBEK BORDER TALKS START. A
delegation of officials headed by
Kyrgyzstan's representative to the Eurasian
Economic Community
Bazarbai Mambetov traveled to Tashkent on 10 March for
talks on the
delimitation of the border between the two countries,
akipress.org
reported on 11 March, citing RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service. According
to
Mambetov, Uzbekistan has said it is prepared to hand over maps of
the
minefields laid by the Uzbek military along the Uzbek-Kyrgyz
border.
The promise was reportedly made during a recent
telephone
conversation between Kyrgyz Prime Minister Nikolai Tanaev and
Uzbek
Prime Minister Otkir Sultonov. A Kyrgyz citizen was killed by
an
Uzbek mine on 23 February, and it was reported shortly thereafter
that
Uzbek authorities had refused Kyrgyz requests for such maps (see
"RFE/RL
Newsline," 28 February 2003). In
addition to border
delimitation, the meeting of the Uzbek-Kyrgyz
Intergovernmental
Commission on Border Delimitation is expected to discuss
access
between the Kyrgyz exclave of Barak and the rest of the country and a
bridge in Karasu Raion that
was demolished by the Uzbeks. One group
of commission experts is to draft an
agreement on building additional
border-crossing points.
BB
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