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PAKISTAN\'S PM MAKES VISIT TO AFGHANISTAN
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Pakistan\'s prime minister promised on Monday to step up efforts to stop al-Qaida militants and their Taliban allies from using Pakistan as a base for attacks in neighboring Afghanistan. Making his first official visit to Afghanistan, Jamali held talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul and said later that his country was determined to fight extremism. \"We want to ensure, and do our double best, that there is no crisscross from Afghanistan into Pakistan, or from Pakistan into Afghanistan,\" Jamali said at a joint news conference in a courtyard of Karzai\'s palace in the Afghan capital.BORDER BETWEEN KAZAKHSTAN AND RUSSIA TO BE FIXED UNTIL END OF 2004
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Delimitation of the 7,500-km section of the Russian-Kazakh border will be completed by the end of 2004, the deputy head of the Federal Security Service\'s Federal Border Guard Service, Lt-Gen Alexander Manilov, said on Monday. Manilov and a group of officers are accompanying the first deputy director of the FSB and director of the Federal Border Guard Service, Vladimir Pronichev, in his working visit to Novosibirsk. \"The Russian and Kazakh sides have agreed on the establishment of some 7,000 km of the border line.KYRGYZSTAN GETS 90,000 TEXTBOOKS FROM RUSSIA
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The Russian Embassy in Bishkek announced on 12 January that the Russian Federation has shipped 90,000 textbooks to Kyrgyzstan for use in schools throughout the country that use Russian as a language of instruction. The textbooks were paid for from Russian government funds. According to the embassy, more than 100,000 textbooks were given to Kyrgyzstan in 2003.RUSSIA SUPPORTS TAJIK TAKEOVER OF PROTECTION OF AFGHAN-TAJIK BORDER
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Deputy chief of the Russian border-guard service Lieutenant General Aleksandr Manilov said on 11 January during a visit to Novosibirsk that Russia supports the idea of Tajik border guards gradually taking over responsibility for guarding the Tajik-Afghan border, adding that the Russian border service\'s directorate in Tajikistan would remain. Tajik border officials said on several occasions in 2003 that Tajikistan is ready to assume responsibility for protection of the country\'s border with Afghanistan. Manilov said Tajik border troops are still unable to guard the entire length of Tajikistan\'s border with Afghanistan by themselves.Visit also
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