Clashes are heating up on the Kyrgyz-Tajikistan border
Heads of neighboring provinces should meet at the border
Tajikistan-Kyrgyzstan on September 16 on the border new clashes have occurred. The parties accuse each other of using heavy weapons. At least three people were killed and 27 people were injured in the clashes that lasted for two days.
Kyrgyzstan’s border service says Tajik soldiers opened fire on several outposts on the disputed mountainous frontline on the morning of September 16. It is reported that tanks, armored infantry vehicles and mortars were used at this time.
Tajikistan, on the other hand, accuses Kyrgyz forces of bombing a post and seven villages with “heavy weapons” in the same area.
The sources of Radio Liberty are in the morning local time 10that clashes continue in several parts of the border news gives
Officials in the Tajik city of Isfara say that one civilian was killed and three others were injured. Kyrgyzstan announced last night that 18 people were injured in the Batken region bordering Tajikistan.
This information could not be independently verified.
President of Kyrgyzstan Sadir Japarov and the President of Tajikistan Emomali Rakhmon they are currently participating in the regional security summit in Uzbekistan.
Although the Kyrgyz prime minister said that he discussed the clashes with his Tajik counterpart, the border service said that the two cease-fires failed.
Heads of neighboring provinces should meet at the border.
Almost half of the 970 km border between the two countries is not demarcated. This has resulted in two countries clashing many times in the last 30 years.
Russia in these two countries of Central Asia military have bases. Moscow called for an end to the clashes.