Interfax
July 14

The Southern Regional Directorate of the Border Service of the Kazakh National Security Committee has been moved from the town of Saryagash (in South Kazakhstan Region, on the border with Uzbekistan) to Shymkent (the administrative centre of the region).

From now on, all activities of the border guards on the sectors of the state border in three of the country's southern regions - South Kazakhstan, Kyzyl-Orda and Zhambyl Region - will be coordinated from one centre, the chief of the Southern Regional Directorate of the Border Service, Abay Brekishev, has told journalists.

He said that the three regions, whose borders were patrolled by the southern directorate's guards, share over 2,000 km of border with Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.

The total length of Kazakhstan's border is over 14,000 km.

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