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From: Elina Karakulova (ekarakulova@sorosny.org)
Date: Wed Jul 09 2003 - 14:34:42 EDT
KAZAKHSTAN CONFIRMS DELIMITATION OF ALL BORDERS EXCEPT RUSSIAN
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev on 4 July signed a series of laws confirming the ratification of land-border delimitation agreements with Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan, thereby completing the process of defining the borders of Central Asia's largest state, except for its border with Russia, according to gazetasng.ru on 8 July. The delimitation agreement with Turkmenistan was based on Soviet-era administrative divisions. Kazakh-Turkmen negotiations are under way on delimiting the two countries' border in the Caspian Sea. Three parcels of land on the Uzbek-Kazakh border were the subject of long diplomatic discussions that ended in an exchange of territory that settled the disagreement between the two countries but angered villagers who suddenly found themselves residents of another country (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 16 April 2003). The delimitation of the 7,200-kilometer Kazakh-Russian border is being held up by a lack of funding on the Russian side to provide border guards, as Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly told his Kazakh counterpart in April. The article notes that given the volume of contraband drugs that have been intercepted in transit from Kazakhstan to Russia, apparently Kazakh border forces are also unable to adequately patrol the common border. BB
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