DUSHANBE, February 13, 2012, Asia-Plus — Tajikistan’s Ambassador to Uzbekistan Muzaffar Huseinov met with Uzbek deputy Foreign Minister, Komil Rashidov, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan at the end of last week to discuss bilateral cooperation between Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, the Tajik MFA information department reports.
The next meeting of the Tajik-Uzbek Intergovernmental Commission for Demarcation and Delimitation was a major topic of the meeting.
A well-informed source in the government of Tajikistan says the next meeting of the Commission, co-chaired by Tajik Security Council Secretary Abdurahim Qahhorov and Uzbek Vice-Premier Rustam Azimov, is scheduled to take place in Dushanbe in late February.
To-date, some 80 percent of Tajikistan’s common border with Uzbekistan has reportedly been delineated.
Some experts consider that the crossing between Uzbekistan and Tajikistan is one of the worst frontier experiences in the Central Asian region. Uzbekistan has made it very difficult for any Tajik citizen to cross the frontier, parts of which are mined.
