FRIDAY
[ 23.09.2005 - 05:33 ]
Afghanistan, Turkmenistan To Improve Joint Border Control
22 September 2005 - Turkmenistan and Afghanistan on Thursday agreed to improve joint control of their shared border, which stretches across a major route for drug smugglers.
A document signed by both sides also reaffirmed that the two countries have no territorial claims against each other, Turkmenistan’s Foreign Ministry said. The accord came at the end of two days of talks in the Turkmen capital.
Turkmenistan, an isolated, gas-rich Central Asian nation ruled by autocratic President Saparmurat Niyazov, shares 860 kilometers (535 miles) of border with Afghanistan.
Afghanistan remains the world's largest opium producer, and Central Asia is one of the main smuggling routes for illegal Afghan drugs. That transit is taking an increasing toll on the region through rising addiction and diseases transmitted by needle-sharing.
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