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Russian PM hopes to resolve the issue on Kyrgyz-Kazakh border

03 November 2017 [15:24] - TODAY.AZ

By Azernews


By Kamila Aliyeva

The problem on the Kyrgyz-Kazakh border, which negatively affects trade and economic ties between the two states, remains in place.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev expressed hope that the issue related to strengthening control at the Kyrgyz-Kazakh border would be resolved.

He noted the importance and usefulness of meetings in the CIS format addressing an expanded meeting of the Council of CIS Heads of Government, TASS reported.

"Colleagues [prime ministers of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan] spoke on topical issues of trade and economic relations. Let's hope that this problem will have opportunities for resolution," Russian official added.

Kazakhstan introduced additional control measures on the Kyrgyz-Kazakh and Russian-Kazakh state borders on October 10, 2017. The measures are taken as part of planned activities, according to Kazakh side.

Meanwhile, the average daily number of persons and vehicles from Kyrgyzstan decreased by 2.4 times at major and busiest checkpoints Ak-Zhol and Ak-Tilek after the introduction of additional control measures by the Kazakh side.

Since October 10, as many as 3,000 persons and 300 transport units cross the border daily. Previously, more than 8,000 persons and over 600 transport units crossed the border daily.

Later, on October 18, during the meeting of Kyrgyz Prime Ministers Sapar Isakov and his Kazakh counterpart Bakytzhan Sagintayev in Astana, the parties agreed to ensure the priority order of crossing the state border for individuals with personal luggage, vehicles carrying out regular passenger transportation, motor transport, and empty cargo vehicles.

To date, the issues with loaded vans remain unresolved.

In January-August 2017, trade turnover between Kazakhstan and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) member-states grew 31.6 percent to $10.8 million. In the total Kazakhstan-EAEU states trade turnover, Kyrgyzstan accounts for 4.3 percent.

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