TEXT OF SINO-AFGHAN BORDER TREATY

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 4, 2012
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• Publication Date: December 14, 1963
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SUBJECT: Text of Sino-Afghan Border Treaty
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A special edition of the Chinese Embassy News Bulletin of November
23, 1963, has published the "full text" of the Sino.-Afghan border agree.
ment which was signed in Peking on November 22. The text as published in
the Bulletin is submitted as an enclosure to this Airgram.
The treaty denotes the southern extremity of the border by co-
ordinates, and does not refer by name to the contiguous countries, thus
avoiding direct reference to the Pak-Indian dispute over Kashmir. The
treaty was effective on the date signed, and the boundary will be marked
on the ground next summer.
Comment: The southern extremity of the border appears to be roughly
the point already designated by existing maps, for example, the Fifth
Edition, HIND 5,000. 1945 (Army Map Service). Indian Embassy officials
have expressed relief that the Afghans refused the Chinese request that
the treaty refer to this point as being contiguous to Pakistani which
would have given support to the latter in the Kashmir dispute.
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NEWS BULLETIN
CHINESE EMBASSY IN AFGHANISTAN.
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November 23 1963
BOUNDARY TREATY BETWEEN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
AND THE KINGDOM OF AFGHANISTAN
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Enclosure 1
- A.283, KABUL
PEKING, November 22: Following is the full text of the Boundary
Treaty Between the People's Republic of China and the Kingdom of Afghan.
istan signed here today:
The Chairman of the People's Republic of China and His Majesty the
King of Afghanistan,
With a view to ensuring the further development of the friendly and
good-neighbourly relations which happily exist between the two independent
and sovereign states, China and Afghanistan;
Resolving to formally delimit and demarcate the boundary existing
between China and Afghanistan in the Pamirs in accordance with the
principles of respect for each other's sovereignty and territorial
integrity and mutual non.-aggression and the Ten Principles of the
Bandung Conference, and in the spirit of friendship, cooperation and
mutual understanding;
Firmly believing that the formal delimitation and demarcation of
the boundary between the two countries will further strengthen the peace
and security of this region;
Have decided for this purpose to conclude the present Treaty, and
appointed as their respective plenipotentiaries:
For the Chairman of the People's Republic of China: Chen Yil
Minister of Foreign Affairs;
For His Majesty the King of Afghanistan: Abdul Kayeum, Minister
of Interior:
Who, having examined each other's full powers and found them to
be in good and due form, have agreed upon the following:
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ARTICLE 1
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Enelesure 1
A.483, KABUL
The Contracting Parties agree that, starting from a peak with a
height of 5630 metres (the reference coordinates of which are approxi.
mately 37?03?N? 740 36' in the southern extremity, the boundary line
between the two countries runs along the Mustagh Range watershed between
the Karachukur Su River, a tributary of the Tashkurghan River, on the one
hand, and the sources of the Aksu River and the Wakhjir River, the upper
reaches of the Wakhan River, on the other hand, passing through South
Wakhjir Daban (called Wakhjir Pass on the Afghan map) at an elevation
of 4923 metres, th Wakhjir Daban (named on the Chinese map only),
est Koktorok Daban name on the Chinese map only), East Koktorok Daban
(called Kara Ji ga Pass on the Afghan map), Tok Man Su Daban (called
Mihman Yoli Pass on the Afghan map), Sank Tash Daban (named on the
Chinese map only), Kokrash Kol Debark, (called Tigarman Su Pass on the
Afghan map), and reaches Peak Kokrash Kol (called Peak Povalo Shveikovski
on the Afghan map) with a height of 5698 metres.
The entire boundary line as described in the present Article is
shown on the 1:200,000 scale map of the Chinese side in Chinese and the
1:253,440 scale map of the Afghan side in Persian, which are attached to
, the present Treaty. Both of the above-mentioned maps have English words
as an auxiliary,
ARTICLE 2
The Contracting Parties agree that wherever the boundary between
the two countries follows a watershed, the ridge thereof shall be the
boundary line, and wherever it passes through a daban (pass), the water.
parting line thereof shall he the boundary line.
ARTICLE 3
The Contracting Parties agree that:
1. As soon as the present Treaty comes into force, a Chinese..Aghan
Joint Boundary Demarcation Commission composed of an equal number of
representatives and several advisors frorn each side shall be set up to
carry out on location concrete surveys of the boundary between the two
countries and to erect boundary markers in accordance with the provisions
of Article 1 of the present Treaty and then draft a protocol relating to
the boundary between the two countries and prepare boundary maps setting
forth in detail the alignment of the boundary line and the location of the
boundary markers on the ground.
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. 2. The protocol and the boundary maps mentioned in. Paragraph 1 of
the present Article, upon coming into force after being signed by the
representatives of the two governments, shall become annexes to the
present Treaty, and the boundary maps prepared by the Joint Boundary
Demarcation Commission shall replete the maps attached to the present
Treaty.
? 3. Upon the signing of the above-mentioned protocol and boundary
maps, the tasks of the Chinese-Afghan Joint Boundary Demarcation Com.
mission shall be terminated.
ARTICLE 4
The Contracting Parties agree that any dispute concerning the
boundary which may arise after the formal delimitation of the boundary
between the two countries shall be settled by the two Parties through
friendly consultation.
ARTICLE 5
The present Treaty shall come into force on the day of its
signature.
Done in duplicate in.Peking on November 22, 1963, in the Chinese,
Persian and English languages, all three texts being qually authentic,
(Signed) Chen Yi
Plenipotentiary of the
People's Republic of China
(Signed) A. Kayeum
Plenipotentiary of the
Kingdom of Afghanistan.
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