Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan state border agreement expected to be signed

In his address to the 77th session of the UN General Assembly, Sadir Japarov announced the signing of an agreement on the state border between Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.

"After the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991, disputed territories and border issues arose. Some of them have not yet been resolved. If on the entire Soviet-Chinese border there were more than 20 disputed territories, in Kyrgyzstan there are five," Japarov said.

The Kyrgyz leader also reminded the international community that Kyrgyzstan successfully completed border crossing issues with China in 1996 and with Kazakhstan in 1999.

"We have almost completed cooperation with Uzbekistan on the State Border Agreement and are at the stage of signing it. I note with satisfaction that the state borders with the three neighboring countries have become a border of peace, good neighborliness, friendship and mutually beneficial cooperation," he remarked.

For information, the length of the border between Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan is 1,378 kilometres, 85 per cent of which are defined and ratified by the 2017 agreement.