President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev congratulated President of Russia Vladimir Putin on the 20th anniversary of the Treaty on the Kazakh-Russian state border
January 18, 2025
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev sent congratulations to President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Treaty on the Kazakh-Russian state border, signed in Moscow on January 18, 2005. “This document, historical in its significance, based on the generally recognized norms of international law, has become a solid foundation for the legal registration of the longest land border in the world and the embodiment of our unbreakable friendship, good-neighborliness and alliance,” the telegram of the President of Kazakhstan says.
The head of our state expressed confidence that the multifaceted cooperation between the two neighboring countries will continue to develop and strengthen.
The state border of Kazakhstan is a line and a vertical plane passing along it, defining the boundaries of the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan (land, water, subsoil, airspace) and the spatial limit of the state sovereignty of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kazakhstan (from December 5, 1936 to December 10, 1991 – the Kazakh SSR) borders with Russia, China, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. The total length of the land state border of Kazakhstan is 13,398 km, the water border is 1,730 km.
The legislation of Kazakhstan on the state border is based on the Constitution and consists of the Law of Kazakhstan dated January 16, 2013
“On the State Border of the Republic of Kazakhstan” and other regulatory legal acts of the republic, while the principle of the priority of international law over state law applies. Border protection is carried out by the Border Service of the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan in cooperation with the forces and means of ministries, other central and local executive bodies and other organizations, with the voluntary involvement of citizens of the republic in border protection.