The President of Tajikistan met with the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan

On February 5, in Dushanbe, the President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kyrgyzstan Jeenbek Kulubaev.

During the conversation, the parties discussed a range of issues regarding Tajik-Kyrgyz relations and the prospects for their development, notes the press service of the President of Tajikistan.

Key topics included issues related to the delimitation and demarcation of the Tajik-Kyrgyz state border, the implementation of agreements reached between the leaders of the two states on advancing bilateral negotiations to define the border line, and recent results achieved in this direction.

The meeting also emphasized that “over the past four months, the parties have agreed on the project and working description of approximately 196 kilometers of the state border line, and to date, the description of nearly 90 percent of its course has been completed.”

Additionally, during the meeting, Emomali Rahmon and Jeenbek Kulubaev discussed issues related to the joint use of water resources of transboundary rivers, the expansion of trade, economic, parliamentary, and other ties between the two countries, as well as specific regional and international topics.

It is worth noting that from January 30 to February 5, another meeting of the topographic working groups and legal working groups of the governmental delegations of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan on the delimitation and demarcation of the Tajik-Kyrgyz state border took place in Batken.

It has been reported that the working groups agreed on 3.71 km of the Tajik-Kyrgyz border. It is unknown which section and under what conditions the border line was agreed upon.

Earlier, during a meeting of the heads of the State Committees for National Security of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, which took place on January 12 of this year in Batken, the parties informed journalists that they had managed to agree on “more than 90% of the state border line.”

In particular, according to them, an agreement was reached regarding the directions of the villages of Kulundu, Maksat, Arka, and Khistevarz, which were considered the most disputed points; a principled agreement has been reached on these issues, and protocols and documents have been prepared.

The length of the border line between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan is approximately 980 km. In recent years, several armed clashes have occurred at the border with Kyrgyzstan, resulting in dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries on both sides.

Two days prior, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan announced at a press conference that Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan would sign a final agreement on border issues in March of this year.