BISHKEK. Dec 6 (Interfax) - The Kyrgyz parliament has ratified the border demarcation treaty with Kazakhstan, a representative of the Kyrgyz parliament told Interfax on Thursday.
"The bill ratifying the border demarcation treaty with Kazakhstan has passed the third and final reading," the representative said.
The treaty was signed in Astana on December 25, 2017, during Kyrgyz President Sooronbai Jeenbekov's official visit to Kazakhstan.
According to the bill's explanatory note, which has been published on the website of the Kyrgyz parliament, the demarcated border between the two countries is 1,257 kilometers and 70 meters long. The sides have installed 683 border signs and 1,055 poles.
The Kyrgyz presidential administration said earlier that "the border demarcation treaty completes the process of the formalization of the border between Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan."
Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan signed the border delimitation treaty in 2003 and ratified it in 2008. They have been working on demarcation since then.
Kyrgyzstan's border is 4,508 kilometers long. It is shared with Kazakhstan, China, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Kyrgyzstan has only completed the formalization of the section with China; a relevant treaty was ratified in the early 2000s.
Border delimitation talks with Uzbekistan and Tajikistan were inconsistent until 2017 because of different approaches to border delimitation, the complex terrain, and the large number of disputed sections. Recently, the sides have made progress in this work.