DUSHANBE, February 11, 2014, Asia-Plus — Tajik Deputy Prime Minister Murodali Alimardon, who is co-chairman of the Tajik-Kyrgyz intergovernmental commission for demarcation and delimitation of disputed segments of mutual border, yesterday met with residents of Vorukh, the jamoat subordinate to the city of Isfara in Sughd province.
A source at the Sughd regional administration says that Alimardon informed them of measures taken by the Tajik government to stabilize the situation on the disputed segments of the Tajik-Kyrgyz border.
“Alimardon stressed that the government of Tajikistan will take all necessary measures to reunify Vorukh with the territory of Tajikistan,” the source said.
“The deputy prime minister called on residents of Vorukh not to commit provocations against neighbors and always remember that Tajiks and Kyrgyz have been friends and good neighbors for ages,” the source added.
Vorukh is the jamoat that forms part of an exclave of Tajikistan within Kyrgyzstan. There are several such enclaves, and they all come from Stalin”s drawing of borders in the 1930s.
We will recall that Tajikistan has suggested working with documents and maps from the 1924-1927 period for delimitation and demarcation of the border while Kyrgyzstan has suggested using the maps of the bilateral commissions from the periods of 1958-1959 and 1989.
The maps of the early 1920s show the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic as incorporating Vorukh within its borders. But the maps of the 1950s show Vorukh as an exclave within the Kyrgyz Soviet Socialist Republic.
