ISFARA, May 2, Asia-Plus — A working meeting of Tajik Security Council Secretary Amirqul Azimov with his Kyrgyz counterpart, Tokon Mamytov, was held in the Tajik northern city of Isfara on April 29.
According to the Isfara mayor’s office, before the meeting the two visited a number of villages on both sides of the Tajik-Kyrgyz border, along which the disputable territory lays.
During the meeting, Azimov and Mamytov 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.
Senior officials of security, border and customs services of the two countries as well as governors of the Sughd and Batken (Kyrgyzstan) provinces and heads of police and security directorates of the cities of Isfara and Batken also attended the meeting.
The 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.
On an initiative of the Tajik side Kyrgyz border guards are 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).
The next meeting of Tajik and Kyrgyz security council secretaries with participation of senior officials of the law enforcement agencies and special services is scheduled to be held in Batken, Kyrgyzstan in September.
