Most precise Int'l Iran-Afghanistan Border clarification begins
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Tehran, April 15, IRNA – Most precise clarification of Iran-Afghanistan Border line began Wednesday in presence of both countries’ concerned officials.
According to IRNA Political Desk, the Defense Propagation Office of the Ministry of Defense and Logistics of the Armed Forces announced on Wednesday morning that in the presence of a delegation from Afghanistan and an Iranian delegation comprised of Ministry of Foreign Affairs representatives as Legal Affairs Committee, IRI Geographical Association as Technical Affairs Committee, and IRIP Border Police, the most precise clarification of International Iran-Afghanistan Border Line began.
The project is in line with policies aimed at strengthening friendly relations, mutual respect, amicable coexistence, and keeping in mind that the last time that the two countries’ borders were clarified was about a century ago and a noticeable number of the existing border posts are worn out, or even annihilated.
With the beginning of this move in addition to elimination of ambiguities from the border documents, taking advantage of the most updated photography and mapping technologies, as well as the satellite images received from Sepehr-Iran Space Station, the objective of conducting the most precise regional border clarification project would be achieved.
After the completion of this project the mutually agreed upon documents would be registered at the respective office at the United Nations.
The almost 945-km long, highly porous Iran-Afghanistan International Border is along a route extending from the Zolfaqar passage – the joint border point among Iran, Afghanistan and Turkmenistan – in the north and the Malek Sepaah Mountain (Iran-Pakistan border) in the south.
Some 709 kilometers of this line is comprised of land border and the remaining 236 kilometer is water border.
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