Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan will hold a meeting of the intergovernmental commission on demarcation of the common border of 1,650km.
President Serdar Berdiymuhamedov approved the Turkmen side of the commission, which will determine the lines of the state border between Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, local TV channel Altyn Asyr reports.
Previously, the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said the two countries had finalised and agreed on draft legal and technical documents on the issue.
Negotiations on the legal formalisation of the Turkmen-Uzbek border began after Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev's state visit to Turkmenistan on 6-7 March 2017.
Specialists from the two countries have since then conducted field aerial surveying and topographic-geodetic work on certain sections of the common border.
Both sides of the border are home to significant diasporas of ethnic Uzbeks in Turkmenistan (about 300,000) and Turkmens in Uzbekistan (about 200 000).
Ashgabat and Tashkent have agreed to establish a border trade zone that will cover the contiguous territory of the two countries - on the border of Turkmenistan's Dashoguz Region and Uzbekistan's Khorezm Region.
A similar joint project near the borders of Lebap Region of Turkmenistan and Bukhara Region of Uzbekistan is under study.
Credits: Eziz Boyarov
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