The signing took place during Sadenov's visit to Beijing on Monday, in the ministry's account carried by Inbusiness from Polisia.kz; he held separate talks with China's minister of public security. The details came on Tuesday at 16:09 through Tengrinews, from the ministry's spokesman, Shyngys Alekeshev. The negotiations lasted 14 years.
The agreement, in his words, "creates a clear legal framework for joint work" and "a mechanism for interaction between the competent agencies of Kazakhstan and China to exchange information faster, prevent violations and respond to specific situations". The centre, in the spokesman's description, is a special border territory crossed daily by large numbers of people, and the document settles how the two countries' authorities act when a security question arises on it.
The second document signed on the visit provides for the mutual recognition and exchange of driving licences. Neither report carries the text of either agreement, an entry-into-force date, or the division of police powers between the two halves of the centre.
The negotiations lasted 14 years.
For a zone whose business is the daily crossing of people and goods between two states, the operative question is which side's officers act on which half, and on whose law. The statement answers that a mechanism now exists. What it is will be known when the text is published.