Highlights: Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan announce agreement on border delimitation. This is an important step towards the stabilization and pacification of the region. A series of clashes between the armies of these two former Soviet republics left this border bloody in 2021 and 2022, leaving more than 200 dead in total and thousands displaced. 889 of the 972 kilometers of common borders between Tajikistan. and KyrGYzstan have been the subject of an agreement to date. This was announced this Thursday in Dushanbe by Orif Khojazoda, the head of the State Committee for Land Management of Tajik.

Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan announce agreement on border delimitation

The authorities of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan announced this Thursday, February 8, that they had agreed on the demarcation of 90% of their common borders. This is an important step towards the stabilization and pacification of the region. A series of clashes between the armies of these two former Soviet republics left this border bloody in 2021 and 2022, leaving more than 200 dead in total and thousands displaced.

A national flag of Kyrgyzstan flies at half-mast as people gather to mourn dead citizens in Batken, near the Kyrgyz-Tajik border, September 19, 2022, following the worst violence the two ex-Soviet countries have seen For years. AFP - VYACHESLAV OSELEDKO

By: RFI Follow

With our correspondent for Central Asia

Régis Genté

889 of the 972 kilometers of common borders between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan have been the subject of an agreement to date. This was announced this Thursday in Dushanbe by Orif Khojazoda, the head of the State Committee for Land Management of Tajikistan.

It is the result of dozens of expert meetings and intense diplomatic activity at the highest level.

Again on February 5, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon received the Kyrgyz Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jeenbek Koulubaev, to reaffirm how bilateral relations between the two countries were their priority.

These agreements on the delimitation of borders come after a series of deadly clashes in 2021 and 2022, involving the armies of both sides.

To tell the truth, they intervene after thirty years of tensions around these borders inherited from the USSR where complex routes, the presence of enclaves complicating the lives of their inhabitants, disputes over access to water, traffic in all genres, starting with that of drugs produced in neighboring Afghanistan.

Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan announce agreement on border delimitation

Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan announce agreement on border delimitation

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