Mongolia and China: Boundary markers on lake Buir

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, /MONTSAME/ A plenary meeting of parliamentary session held Thursday made a decision on whether to discuss a draft law on ratifying an inter-governmental treaty between Mongolia and the People's Republic of China on the Mongolia-China boundary regime.

The new treaty on boundary regime reflects vital matters on protection of the state border, joint examination over the border, determining and maintaining border regime, prevention of border violations and tackling problems. This treaty also regulates matters on setting markers on the water border, preventing crimes such as illegally residing or making business near the state border, selling and transporting drugs and prohibited products, on protection of environment and wild animals, on developing local business and tourism near borders.

When considering the draft law, some MPs asked related officials about marking the border on the lake Buir and whether illegal transportation of drugs exists.

Brigadier-General A.Lhagvasuren, first deputy head of the General Authority for Border Protection, has said the new treaty reflects for the first time the matter on marking the border on the lake Buir. "A treaty of 1988 didnot havbe such a clause," he added.

A specialist of the Ministry of Justice and International Affairs D.Damdin has said Mongolia's side is paying a great attention to this issue and has put forward a proposal to China to install steel pipes in the lake because it is very hard to make the markers on and under water. In responce to it, the Chinese side says it might be tackled in frames of the joint commission, which will implement the treaty.

The Brigadier-General A.Lhagvasuren has said people from the People's Democratic Republic of Korea have not commited any border-related crimes in the last two years, emphasizing that the new boundary treaty has a nice mechanism to regulare frontier violations, through lines of the frontier representatives.

B.Khuder

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