Another said, surprisingly, that the formal border demarcation was a secondary concern for the two leaders.
Globalisation has rendered the formal borders less important, but the informal ones are as powerful as ever.
His literary genius would spread effortlessly across formal borders, as he wrote magazine articles for Ms. Brown's Talk magazine, books for Talk Books and screenplays for Miramax.
Formal border talks exist a 16th round is due between special representatives but no one expects anything to follow from them.As the years slip by, China may grow less interested in a quiet border.
To preserve the common travel area between the two countries, the government had to propose formal border checks on flights and ferries between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.
In this way, the court embraced the ideal of the outward-looking Constitution: a document that protects the rights not only of citizens within the United States but also of noncitizens outside its formal borders.
Four smugglers said they could still help refugees cross the river that lies between eastern Greece and western Turkey, or bribe Greek and Turkish officials to let car loads of refugees through the formal border crossing.
The end of the tunnel trade, which Egypt had tolerated for years, crippled Gaza economically, since the simultaneous closure of Egypt's formal border at Rafah meant Gazans had no other way of importing many supplies.
But then in an interview given to a Spanish newspaper, Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo suggested Spain was considering more formal border restrictions.
Armistice lines were drawn, but they weren't formal borders.
