KHUJAND, September 21, 2010, Asia-Plus — Cargo proceeds via crossings on the Tajik-Kyrgyz border in Sughd province without hindrance, according to the Sughd regional customs service.
“We have not received any information from the customs control points about the cargo proceeding problems,” the source at the Sughd regional customs service told Asia-Plus Monday afternoon.
In Sughd province, Tajikistan has nearly a 350-kilometer common border with Kyrgyzstan and there are three crossings on the Tajik-Kyrgyzs border in northern Tajikistan – Ovchi Qalachi in Bobojonghafurov district, Madaniyat in Jabborrasulov district and Guliston in Isfara district.
In the meantime, the deputy chief of Kyrgyzstan’s border guard service Cholponbek Turusbekov told Kyrgyzstan’s news agency Azattyk on September 20 that Kyrgyz security forces from the Naryn, Issyk, Chui and Talass regions have been deployed to the Batken region to control the Kyrgyz-Tajik border following the deadly clashes between armed extremist group and Tajik government forces in Tajikistan’s Rasht district on September 19.
