Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan have finalised and agreed on draft legal and technical documents on the demarcation of their 1,650 km common border.
According to the Uzbek Foreign Ministry, a regular meeting of the working groups of the Joint Demarcation Commission was held in Nukus (Uzbekistan). They also discussed issues related to the preparation of the meeting of the intergovernmental commission in this field.
Negotiations on the legal registration of the Turkmen-Uzbek border began after the state visit of Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev to Turkmenistan on 6-7 March.
Since then, specialists from both countries have been carrying out aerial mapping 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 (around 300,000) and Turkmens in Uzbekistan (around 200,000).
Ashgabat and Tashkent have agreed to establish a border trade zone covering the contiguous territory of the two countries - on the border of Turkmenistan's Dashoguz region and Uzbekistan's Khorezm region. A similar joint project on the border of Turkmenistan's Lebap region and Uzbekistan's Bukhara region is being studied.
Credits:Eziz Boyarov
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