a news item from Radio Free Europe. Crude Uzbek attempts to unilaterally
erect a border fence in 1999/2000 were resisted by the Kazakh state and
citizens.
RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY, PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC
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RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 7, No. 150, Part I, 8 August 2003
KAZAKHSTAN, UZBEKISTAN START BORDER DEMARCATION. Having agreed on the
delimitation of their common frontier after four years of work,
Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are starting the procedure of actually
marking the border, khabar.kz reported on 7 August. The process of
setting up markers on the 1,251-kilometer border is expected to take
18 months. According to khabar.kz, the presidents of the two
countries agreed in late 2002 that no barbed wire or fences would be
used. According to "Ekspress-K" on 6 August, some questions remain
about the placing of markers in villages that straddle the border. BB
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