DUSHANBE, March 31, 2014, Asia-Plus — An official source at the Isfara mayor’s office says that one of border crossing points (BCP) on the Isfara stretch of the Tajik-Kyrgyz border will be reopened today morning.
“Two other BCPs are expected to be reopened today afternoon and two BCPs located in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) and the Rasht Valley (eastern Tajikistan) will be reopened tomorrow,” the source noted.
Meanwhile, the next round of border talks between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan is expected to take place within the next few days.
We will recall that five Kyrgyz border guards, one Kyrgyz policeman, and two Tajik border guards were hospitalized with injuries on January 11 after tensions escalated into exchanges of gunfire along the Kyrgyz-Tajik border. The clash started when Tajiks protested Kyrgyzstan’s construction of a bypass road through a disputed area. Tajikistan has requested to halt the construction of the road until the border is delimited.
Kyrgyzstan recalled its ambassador to Tajikistan and unilaterally closed border crossing points (BCPs) on its common border with Tajikistan
