So it's a border zone dominated by trade and commerce, much of it illegal.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has threatened to withdraw from Europe's open border zone unless more is done to stop illegal immigration.
"Unfortunately, airport staff cannot man the desks at the border zone but we will provide all necessary assistance to the Border Agency, " he added.
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By leaving the border zone under Hamas control, Israel left the path clear for Iran to resupply Hizbullah's armed forces with missiles and rockets.
Hizbullah has not limited its operations to the border zone.
The US and Pakistan have had serious disagreements over the Afghan border zone, with Washington unhappy at Pakistani efforts to tackle militants and Islamabad condemning US drone attacks inside its territory.
Mr Bamba said any adjustments to the size of the force would need to be offset "by the deployment of qualitative resources, such as surveillance drones for the border zone between Ivory Coast and Liberia".
In the tense border zone where integrationist militias appear to be girding for a campaign of cross-border destabilization and terror, overstretched Interfet forces will almost certainly need to rely on Falintil as their local eyes and ears.
He says that, if the United States legalised existing Mexican immigrants, Mexico would do more to reduce the flow of new ones, by developing poor regions but also by an unprecedented offer to police its own border zone and migrant routes.
The IDF's current siege of Gaza City, its control over northern Gaza, its naval quarantine of the coast and its bombardment and isolation of the border zone with Egypt could cause Hamas to sue for a cease-fire on less than victorious terms.
This week, Asa Hutchinson, under secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, told the House Committee on Government Reform that Mexican cardholders traveling less than 25 miles from the border zone and staying no longer than 72 hours in the United States would not be required to enroll in the monitoring program, called US VISIT.
Just as Hizbullah has used UNIFIL forces in south Lebanon as a shield from the IDF behind which it has rearmed and reasserted control over the border zone, so too a NATO force would facilitate an empowerment of Hamas and Fatah, which would unify, arm and organize free from the threat of IDF counterterror operations.
In February, an ECJ advocate general said this was in line with the aims of the EU single market - a border-free zone for goods and services.
The two countries came close to all-out war over border disputes last year, and have since agreed to set up a buffer zone along the border.
Kenyan troops have launched a cross-border operation against Al-Shabaab in southern Somalia with the apparent intention of setting up a buffer zone across the border.
In December 2012, the Libyan Congress declared the southwest desert border region a closed military zone.
Mr. Obama will also visit the inter-Korean border known as the demilitarized zone, or DMZ, which every president has done since Ronald Reagan.
Most EU countries, and some others including Switzerland and Norway, are in the Schengen zone, where border controls for those countries' citizens are minimal or non-existent.
Some analysts say the Kenyan government wants to establish a buffer zone along its border with Somalia following a string of attacks blamed on the al-Qaeda linked al-Shabab group.
Sitting on the western edge of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Zone near the border of Tajikistan, the Chinese envision Kashgar as the main rail and air link to the stans.
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On a bus journey across the Demilitarized Zone into the border city of Kaesong in 2008, we were told: No cellphones, no long camera lenses, no shooting photos without permission.
"What we need to see right now is the international community taking serious measures, " he said, in the form of humanitarian aid which must reach those who need it establishing a buffer zone on the border with Turkey.
When world attention focused on the planned economic zone near the Russian border, Pyongyang despatched armed commandos.
Over the past year the Danish, French and Italian governments have rolled back the Schengen passport-free zone and reintroduced limited border controls.
In addition to restarting oil exports from South Sudan, the two presidents agreed on a demilitarized zone and principles of border demarcation.
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In addition to a deal to restart oil exports from South Sudan, the two presidents agreed on a demilitarized zone and principles of border demarcation.
Midnight celebration in the Special Economic Zone directly across the border.
Mr Tusk just about accuses his fellow EU leaders of hypocrisy for talking of integration and yet undoing the Schengen passport-free zone by reimposing some border controls.
The North is still officially at war with its southern neighbour and over the years there have been repeated incidents at the Demilitarised Zone which marks the border.
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