Transcript Border Disputes

Border Disputes
By Dominique Troyanos
And
Sophie Kenyon
Thesis
• The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 created 15
individual countries. Even though they were
all the same country at one time they do not
get along; there are so many border disputes,
all stemming from the fall of Soviet Union, and
most of which happen because of the
resources one country can gain from
expanding its borders into another country.
Grabber
Definitions
• Demarcation- the determining or making of
boundary lines (border lines).
• Demarcate- to make border lines.
• Delimit- mark the limits of borders.
The Baltics
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Belarus, Latvia and Lithuania agreed on
border situation, Poland disagrees and
insists that better identified boundary
lines be made. All four countries want
better security systems along border.
Recent demarcation disagreement
between Latvia and Lithuania.
Negotiating over oil reserves between.
Romania unhappy with Ukraine’s
decision to reopen navigational canals
that lead to Black Sea.
Ukraine and Belarus 1997 demarcation
issue still unresolved.
Dispute with Russia through Kerch Strait
and Sea of Azov remains unresolved.
Russia recalled its signature to the
technical border agreement.
Middle Eastern and Stans
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1. Border dispute between Armenia
and Azerbaijan.
2. Sour relations between Russia and
Georgia. Illegal drug transport
issues. Government issues.
3. Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia
agreed on how Caspian Sea would
be split. Iran and Turkmenistan
want part as well.
4. Kyrgyzstan has yet to ratify
boundary delimitation with
Kazakhstan from 2001.
5. Russia and Kazakhstan still arguing
over border lines since 2007.
6. Uzbekistan lost 130km of land to
Kyrgyzstan, trying to get it back.
7. Talking with Uzbekistan to delimit
borders and remove minefields
8. Field demarcation of boundaries
with Kazakhstan
Conclusion
• As you have seen matters from the FSU are
not solved, and probably wont be for a long
time. If the 15 countries cannot cooperate
enough to create borders, maybe they would
function better as a single unit.
Bibliography
• https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/theworld-factbook/index.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostSoviet_states
• http://www.google.com/imgres?q=soviet+uni
on+map&um=1&hl=en&biw=1311&bih=617&