The Tajik-Kyrgyz Intergovernmental Commission on settlement of disputable border issues will begin its work on February 7. The Tajik media report.
According to their reports, Rajabboy Ahmadzoda, head of Tajikistan’s Sughd region, said that border issues would be resolved through diplomatic channels in accordance with the existing legislation.
«A joint commission is working now and our goal is to ensure security and order on the border,» he said.
According to Rajabboy Ahmadzoda, he is in close contact with the head of Batken region of Kyrgyzstan.
Earlier it was reported with reference to the Chairman of the State Committee for Land Management and Geodesy of Tajikistan Orif Khojazoda that since May 1, 2021, in accordance with the Protocol № 39, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan have held eight meetings of the topographic commission to clarify the border and demarcated 81 kilometers of the border line.
In 2009, being a secretary of the Security Council, Adakhan Madumarov signed with the Tajik side the protocol of the working meeting of the heads of state bodies of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan under the leadership of the Secretaries of the Security Councils of the two countries. According to the document, the Kyrgyz side leased a plot of land from Tajikistan for 49 years, 5 hectares in size and 275 meters long. The protocol was adopted after the negotiations in Khudzhent. Officials were harmonizing domestic procedures for signing an intergovernmental agreement to ban economic activity along the state border line until demarcation and delimitation are completed.
Tajikistan still considers these 5 hectares as its land. Kyrgyzstan calls this land a disputed section of the border.
