Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- The government delegations of the Kyrgyz Republic and the Republic of Uzbekistan on the delimitation and demarcation of the Kyrgyz-Uzbek State border signed the Protocol of the Joint Meeting of the government delegations of the Kyrgyz Republic and the Republic of Uzbekistan on the delimitation and demarcation of the Kyrgyz-Uzbek state border, which will allow to start the procedure for coordinating the draft of a new Treaty on certain sections of the Kyrgyz-Uzbek state border.

The document from the Kyrgyz side was signed by the Chairman of the State Committee for National Security, Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Kyrgyz Republic Kamchybek Tashiev and the Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan Abdulla Aripov.

We have a historic mission - to complete the issue of delimitation and demarcation of the Kyrgyz-Uzbek state border. On the one hand, this is a great honor, and on the other, a great responsibility. This was stated by Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Kyrgyz Republic Kamchybek Tashiev during a joint meeting of government delegations of the Kyrgyz Republic and the Republic of Uzbekistan on the delimitation and demarcation of the Kyrgyz-Uzbek state border.

"I hope that based on the results of today’s joint meeting, we will prepare for signing in the very near future by our esteemed Presidents of the draft Treaty between the Kyrgyz Republic and the Republic of Uzbekistan on the Kyrgyz-Uzbek state border on the remaining sections," he said.

“Today the Kyrgyz Republic and the Republic of Uzbekistan are close neighbors, true friends and strategic partners. Kyrgyzstan is fully ready for further expansion of political, trade, economic, investment, transport, interregional, cultural and humanitarian ties with Uzbekistan,” Kamchybek Tashiev said.

In turn, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan Abdulla Aripov confirmed the full determination of the Uzbek side to agree on the draft Treaty on the delimitation and demarcation of the Kyrgyz-Uzbek state border.

“Government delegations of the two republics have worked hard, painstaking work has been done to coordinate the remaining sections of the Kyrgyz-Uzbek state border. I am sure that the completion of the delimitation process will once again confirm the inviolability of our eternal friendship and truly fraternal relations,” said Abdulla Aripov.