Kazakhstan\'s Senate ratified an agreement on the demarcation of the country\'s border with Turkmenistan on 19 June. The border agreement was signed by the presidents of both countries in July 2001, and the Senate\'s ratification has been passed on for President Nazarbaev\'s signature. Delimitation of the Kazakh-Turkmen border was based on Soviet-era administrative boundaries and mutually agreed-upon maps. The Caspian Sea boundary between the two countries will be set by a separate treaty, as will the point where the borders of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan meet. The same session of the Senate also ratified an agreement with Azerbaijan on the delimitation of the boundary between the two countries on the Caspian seabed. (Interfax-Kazakhstan)