Parliament of Kazakhstan approved a number of bilateral instruments with Turkmenistan
The Senate of the Kazakhstani parliament has ratified the Treaty on strategic partnership with Turkmenistan and the Agreement on the demarcation of Kazakh-Turkmen border. Both documents were signed by the two presidents after summit talks in Astana in April this year. According to the first document, the parties will focus on enhancing cooperation in such key areas as economy, trade, energy, water resources, space exploration, agriculture, engineering, migration, education, sports, culture and tourism. It also provides for the development of transit-transport potential of the two countries, and the creation and development of international telecommunication transit routes. Particular attention will be paid to the environmental direction with an emphasis on restoring the ecosystem of the Aral Sea through interaction in the development and implementation of international and regional programs in this field, and protection of the Caspian Sea. The Treaty will come into force 30 days after the exchange of ratification instruments. According to the agreement on demarcation, the junction Point of the state borders of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan is defined as the initial point of the state border, and the final one is the border point No 162 located on the coast of the Caspian Sea, Kazakhstan Today reports citing the Senate press service. “As a result of demarcation, the length of the Kazakh-Turkmen state border is 458.3 kilometers. 330 border signs have been installed along the state border line,” said Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan Kairat Abdrakhmanov, addressing the upper house of parliament. This document fixes not only the geographical parameters of the state border, but also establishes the territorial limits of national sovereignties. The predecessors of ratified legal instruments are the Treaty on Friendly Relations and Cooperation of 1993 and the Treaty on Delimitation and Border Demarcation of 2001.
