From: Justin Burke (JBurke@sorosny.org)
Date: Fri Nov 03 2000 - 09:34:16 EST
Tajik top border guard warns Uzbeks against planting mines on border
Excerpts from report by Tajik radio on 2nd November
A meeting of the Council of the Border Troops of the CIS member-countries
took place in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, recently.
[Passage omitted: repeat of the facts about the meeting]
The head of the State Border Protection Committee under the government of
Tajikistan, Saidanvar Kamolov, had a meeting with senior officials from the
Uzbek Border Troops within the framework of the meeting.
Issues relating to the planting of mines by Uzbek border guards on the
Tajik-Uzbek border, which have killed many local people, were discussed
during the meeting.
Saidanvar Kamolov noted, in connection with this, that the Uzbek border
guards' action was a violation of the Geneva convention [as heard].
The Uzbek side promised that they would take precise measure to jointly
resolve the problems that had emerged.
Source: Tajik Radio first programme, Dushanbe, in Tajik 0800 gmt 02 Nov 00
BBC Mon CAU 021100 ker/as
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