Preparation for Russia-Kazakh border demarcation starts.

YEKATERINBURG, August 7 (Itar-Tass) - Preparations for the demarcation
of the border between Russia and Kazakhstan started in the Ural Federal
District of Russia on Wednesday, it was said at a meeting of the
interdepartmental border security group held at the district envoy's
office. So far the border between the two countries exists only on maps.
Demarcation envisages the creation of the full-fledged border
infrastructure.
Officials at the Ural federal department of the Russian Federal
Security Service (FSB) told Itar-Tass that the places are currently being
determined for setting border signs and issues of the building border
checkpoints are being settled.
"There are no territorial questions between Russia and Kazakhstan -
they had been decided at meetings of the two countries' presidents," the
department officials noted. Demarcation will be started in the Astrakhan
region in 2009. This process will move along the border with Kazakhstan
from the west to the east.
The total length of the border running on the territory of the Ural
Federal District exceeds 2,600 kilometres. The border with Kazakhstan is
about 1,600 kilometres long.