DUSHANBE, November 24, 2008, Asia-Plus — Tajik and Kyrgyz security council secretaries are scheduled to meet in Batken, Kyrgyzstan on November 25 to discuss the joint border delineation issues.
A source at the Security Council said that the Security Council Secretary Amirqul Azimov and his Kyrgyz counterpart Adakhan Madumraov would discuss the progress of implementation of decisions made at the previous meeting that was held in Isfara, Tajikistan on April 29 this year.
We will recall that in April, the sides visited a number of villages on both sides of the Tajik-Kyrgyz border, along which the disputable territory lays. Tajik and Kyrgyz security council secretaries discussed a broad range of issues related to combating religious extremism, preventing organized crime, protecting the border and working out joint measures to settle conflict situations on the border.
The April 29 meeting participants agreed to set up commissions at levels of heads of provinces and districts of the two countries for preventing and settling conflict situations. They also agreed to ban any economical activity in the disputable territories until the border delineation work is completed.
Besides, on an initiative of the Tajik side Kyrgyz border guards were to study the issue of removing the Kyrgyz border checkpoint Bedak for the purpose of simplifying Tajik nationals’ travels to the village of Vorukh (Tajik exclave in Kyrgyzstan).
