AKIPRESS.COM – President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a law on the ratification of the treaty between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan on the demarcation of the Uzbek-Kazakh state border, concluded in Tashkent on December 22, 2022, according to the website of the President of Uzbekistan.
President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed the law on ratification of this agreement on March 28.
According to the agreement, the length of the demarcated line of the state border is 2,356 km 666 m. It was drawn on the basis of the agreements on the state border of 2001 and 2022. The signing of the agreement, which took place during the visit of the head of Kazakhstan to Tashkent, completed the process of legal registration of the border between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
Zakon.kz wrote that negotiations on demarcation had been underway since 2003. Field work on the installation of border markers continued from 2004 to 2021. A total of 100 meetings of the joint demarcation commission and 34 meetings of the joint demarcation working group took place. The border has become longer by 5 km due to a change in the course of the river.
According to the agreement, 1,301 boundary markers were installed on the border line. 1,052 signs from one boundary pillar were installed on the land border line, 127 signs of two pillars along the banks of border rivers, canals and roads, and 122 signs from three border pillars at the confluence of internal and border rivers, canals and roads.
The parties agreed to conduct a joint check of the delineation of the border line every 10 years. Joint commissions will be created for these purposes.
Source: Akipress
