DUSHANBE, July 7, 2014, Asia-Plus — Working groups of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan will meet in the near future to discuss and coordinate a draft government-to-government agreement on national border.
“The working groups must worked out the agreement by an official visit of Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev to Tajikistan that will take place in early September this year,” the source said.
Meanwhile, the working groups of both countries gathered in the Tajik northern city of Qairoqqum on July 7 for a two-day meeting to discuss a draft government-to-government agreement between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan on use of border roads.
We will recall that the sides have reportedly agreed to simultaneously start construction of the roads Koktash-Aksai-Tamdyk-Kishemish and Isfara-Vorukh beginning on July 10.
A 130-square-kilometer fertile area around the village of Vorukh, which is populated by some 32,000 people, the vast majority of them Tajiks, is one disputed areas on the Tajik-Kyrgyz border. Legally, Vorukh is part of Tajikistan, but due to past redrawing of borders, it exists as an exclave some 20 kilometers inside Kyrgyzstan.
