Ak-Tash checkpoint resumed work for free passage of the inhabitants of Barak exclave (Uzbekistan) to the territory of Kyrgyzstan. The Information Support Department of the Government’s Executive Office reported.
The simplified checkpoint Ak-Tash (Kyrgyzstan) — Birlishken (Uzbekistan) started working the day before. On December 18, the Prime Ministers Mukhammedkaly Abylgaziev and Abdulla Aripov agreed on this at the second meeting of the Council of Heads of Border Regions of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. The checkpoint will work daily from 9.00 to 19.00. In case of emergency situations, the passage of citizens will be around the clock.
Ak-Tash is located on the Kyrgyz-Uzbek section of the state border and connects the exclave Barak with Kara-Suu district of Osh region. The checkpoint stopped working in the spring of 2013.
Border guards of Kyrgyzstan in agreement with the Uzbek side supplied food, drugs, fuel, seeds and fertilizers to the village in 2013-2015.
«Earlier, residents of Barak exclave were forced to cross the state border through Kyzyl-Kiya-Avtodororzhniy checkpoint, making a detour of 150 kilometers. To get to Osh, they had to drive about 300 kilometers. Now, one has to overcome a little more than a kilometer through Ak-Tash to get to the main territory of Kyrgyzstan,» the message says.
