The head of the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan (SCNS) Kamchybek Tashiev and Tajikistan Saimumin Yatimov held talks on Sunday.
An agreement was reached to close and continue not to deploy any types of border guard units in the areas of Tamdyk (KR) and Bedak (RT) frontier posts, Bulak-Bashy (KR) and Kekh (RT) posts, Katta-Tuz (KR) and Karakchikum (RT) posts, Ak-Sai post in the area of Chaikhana (KR) and Sharshara posts in the area of Khojai-Alo (RT). The buildings and structures of these units will be mothballed.
The press center of the State Committee for National Security explained that this protocol is temporary and is valid until the process of delimitation and demarcation of the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan is completed.
«Protection of the Kyrgyz-Tajik state border in these areas is carried out by mobile border detachments of the parties, which will serve along the border strictly along the routes indicated and agreed by the parties,» the SCNS explained.
According to the signed protocol, the parties undertake not to allow the presence of border population of both countries in these areas, which excludes any economic and any other activity until the legal registration of the border is completed.
The SCNS calls on the public not to succumb to unreasonable, disproportionate indiscriminate criticism of the results of the negotiations between the parties, destructive calls and slogans of the forces interested in maintaining tension on the border, which are enough in the Kyrgyz Republic and the Republic of Tajikistan.
«The work of the commissions of the parties on delimitation and demarcation of the border continues. We call on the public to show their civic position, not to be a tool for manipulation by the destructive forces interested in escalating the situation, and to help the authorities of the republic in finding the soonest mutually beneficial and peaceful resolution of border issues,» the state committee said.
Emergency situation has been introduced in Batken region. Shooting began at several sites of the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan on the morning of September 16. Settlements in Leilek and Batken district came under fire. The Ministry of Health reported 198 victims, 62 people were killed. As a result of the armed conflict on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border, residents of seven villages in Batken and Leilek districts, as well as Dzhekendi village in Chon-Alai district of Osh region, left their homes.
The Prosecutor General’s Office of Kyrgyzstan opened a criminal case on crimes against peace.
