Kyrgyz president to visit Uzbekistan
TASHKENT. April 14 (Interfax) - Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan have defined nearly 1,000 kilometers of the joint border and are preparing to solidify it with a relevant agreement, Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Komilov said.
Preparations are under way for Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev's visit to Uzbekistan, Komilov told reporters at an international press club in Tashkent on Friday.
The parties are working actively to resolve a host of problems, in particular, on such a complicated and sensitive issue as border delimitation, Komilov said.
"Today we catalogued almost a thousand kilometers and are now preparing an agreement to write down forever into history that these are mutually recognized borders," Komilov said.
The joint Uzbek-Kyrgyz border is 1,378 kilometers long. Over 300 kilometers of it, in 58 places, remain disputed. There are 15 checkpoints on the border between the two countries.