PLA Major General Ni Rong, Deputy Director of China’s Ministry of Public Security (MPS) Border Control Department, met the head of Kyrgyzstan’s State Border Service (SBS), in Bishkek on July 16, 2015, and handed over security-related equipment valued at 300,000 yuan. Both sides “agreed to continue cooperation to ensure border security.” Summarizing the results of June’s “Vostok [East] 2015” joint border operation, SBS Deputy Chairman Iskender Mambetaliyev said “We constantly hear that Uighur extremists commit acts of terrorism [but] we do not have any problems on our side of the border”.