By empty (5/7/2002 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In an address to both chambers of the Kyrgyz parliament on 7 May, President Akaev asked deputies to ratify the 1999 border agreement with China under which Kyrgyzstan ceded to China some 95,000 hectares of disputed territory. Akaev said that he wants the agreement ratified before the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit scheduled to take place in St. Petersburg in June.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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