UzA
As of 8:30 a.m. Aril 14, the situation on the Kyrgyz-Tajik section of the state border is relatively stable, the press service of the Border Service of the State Committee for National Security (SCNS) of Kyrgyzstan said. A meeting was held on Wednesday between the delegations of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. The Kyrgyz delegation was headed by First Deputy Chairman – Director of the SCNS State Border Service Ularbek Sharsheyev. The Tajik delegation was led by Radjabali Rakhmonali, First Deputy Chairman and Commander of the Border Troops of the State Committee on National Security of Tajikistan.
Heads of Kyrgyzstan’s Batken Oblast and Sughd Region of Tajikistan, heads of regional security agencies and law enforcement bodies of the two countries took part in the negotiations.
Following agreements were reached during the talks:
– To continue the withdrawal of additional forces and means drawn to the border during the border conflict to their permanent deployment points.
Control over the implementation of this decision will be carried out by a commission consisting of employees of the competent authorities of the parties:
– April 14 within the Leilek (Kyrgyzstan) and Gafurov (Tajikistan) regions;
– April 15 within Batken (Kyrgyzstan) and Isfara (Tajikistan) regions.
In addition, a working group of border representatives of the parties will be created, which should work to clarify the routes of the border guards of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
Local authorities together with law enforcement bodies of the parties should conduct explanatory work with the local population of the border areas on the observance of previously reached agreements on the order of joint land and water use.
Following the results of the meeting, the heads of delegations signed the protocol.
The conflict on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border started on April 12, when Tajik border guards entered the territory of Kyrgyzstan. In order to prevent the passage of Tajik border guards deep into the territory, the border detachment of the Border Service of the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan fired warning shots into the air. In response, the Tajik border guards opened fire on the Kyrgyz border guards. As a result of negotiations between the border representatives of the two states, the shooting was stopped.
As a result, six Kyrgyz citizens were wounded, two of them are servicemen.
On April 13, the situation relatively stabilized, and the fleeing and evacuated civilians of the border villages began to return to their homes.
