Kazakh-Uzbekistan barrier

The Kazakh-Uzbekistan barrier is a 28 mile separation barrier built by Kazakhstan along part of its border with Uzbekistan. Construction began on October 19 2006. The 8ft high barbed wire fence which includes searchlights spans the Sariaghash and Maktaaral administrative districts of southern Kazakhstan [cite web
url = http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/10/f82907ac-59f0-4a12-8269-a140c8782ee9.html
title = Kazakhstan To Fence Section Of Border
accessdate = 2007-06-12
last =
first =
date = October 19, 2006
publisher = Radio Free Europe ] and is situated along heavily populated towns and cities on the southern ridge. It is being built to curb drug smuggling across the border. [cite web
url = http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E3DD163FF933A15753C1A9609C8B63
title = Kazakhstan: Fence For Part Of Uzbek Border
accessdate = 2007-06-12
last = Greenberg
first = Ilan
date = October 20, 2006
publisher = New York Times]

Before 2002, 96% of the international border between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan had been delimited. In 2001, after mutual agreement, the border line in three disputed areas, (Bagys, Arnasai and Nsan), were left undrawn. In September 2002 Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan fully resolved the route of the 2,440km border. [cite web
url = http://missions.itu.int/~kazaks/eng/archive/0209/n0209a.htm
title = President N. Nazarbayev met with the President of Uzbekistan I. Karimov, who has arrived to Kazakhstan with an official visit
accessdate = 2007-06-12
last =
first =
date = September 09, 2002
publisher = Permanent Mission of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the UN]

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