Uzbek president signs laws ratifying border, water resource accords with Kyrgyzstan
ISTANBUL (AA) – The president of Uzbekistan on Wednesday signed laws ratifying two key agreements with neighboring Kyrgyzstan on their mutual border and management of water resources in the Andijan (Kempir-Abad) reservoir.
“Thanks to the political will of the heads of state, the mutual respect and good neighborly relations between the two fraternal peoples are strengthening, and an agreement is reached on issues that have remained unresolved for 30 years,” said a statement from the office of Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
The accords, a major step in resolving a long-running border dispute over the nearly 1,380 kilometers (857 miles) frontier between the two Central Asian countries, were signed on Nov. 3 during a visit by Uzbek Foreign Minister Vladimir Norov to the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek.
They were ratified by the lower house of the bicameral Uzbek parliament on Nov. 14 and approved by the upper house four days later.
“The agreement between the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Kyrgyz Republic on certain sections of the state border consists of 13 articles. It defines the border line with a total length of 302.2 kilometers, including 35 sections of the Uzbek-Kyrgyz state border,” the statement said.
Kyrgyzstan had finalized its ratification process of the treaties on Tuesday.
On Sept. 26, the two countries had signed a joint protocol on the demarcation of their border, roughly 18 months after they agreed on a treaty to end the dispute.
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