Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan plan to hold a meeting of the intergovernmental commission on the demarcation of the state border between the two countries.
According to the Uzbek Foreign Ministry, the issue of preparation was discussed at a meeting of the working groups of the joint demarcation commission in Nukus. "The meeting was traditionally held in an atmosphere of friendship and mutual understanding".
Earlier, it was reported that the parties were finalising and agreeing draft legal and technical documents on the issue.
Negotiations on the legal formalisation of the 1,650km Turkmen-Uzbek border began after Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev's state visit to Turkmenistan on 6-7 March 2017.
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 create 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.
Eziz Boyarov
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