Minister of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan Sirodjiddin Mukhriddin during the session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) held on Wednesday in Astana urged the Kyrgyz side to follow the signed protocols on the state border. This was reported Thursday by the Department of Information and Press of the Tajikistan Foreign Ministry.
"The Tajikistan foreign minister urged the Kyrgyz side to refrain from exacerbating the situation, strictly follow the signed protocols and strictly control the course of their implementation," the report said. Mukhriddin added that "dozens of protocols were signed during the 20-year history of Tajik-Kyrgyz negotiations." The only legal basis for continuing the negotiation process is the 1924-1927 Central Asian national-territorial demarcation documents that passed all constitutional procedures, he said. The minister noted that Dushanbe disagreed with the position of Bishkek, which considered the Agreement on the CIS and the Almaty Declaration as a legal basis for the state border. At the same time, the foreign minister said that Tajikistan was committed to resolving all issues with Kyrgyzstan exclusively by political and diplomatic means.
Aggravation on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border began on September 14 and lasted until September 17, at some sections of the common border. According to the Tajik side, more than 50 Tajik civilians were killed as a result of the shelling, 106 residential houses were destroyed and more than 200 were partially damaged, including schools, mosques, medical centers and shops. Bishkek reported 59 Kyrgyz citizens dead. After several rounds of negotiations, on September 25, SCNS chairmen Saimumin Yatimov and Kamchybek Tashiyev held talks at the Kyzyl-Bel checkpoint and signed a protocol to end the conflict on the border between the two countries.
The Tajik-Kyrgyz border is more than 980 kilometers long, and after the collapse of the Soviet Union there were dozens of disputed sections on it. So far, more than 663 km of the border between the two countries have been identified and agreed upon in the process of delimitation and demarcation. In some sections, there are occasional disputes and conflicts between local residents of the border areas.
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