DUSHANBE, January 13, 2014, Asia-Plus — The road connecting the Tajik northern city of Isfara and the Vorukh jamoat, which is a Tajik exclave within Kyrgyzstan, has been reopened for traffic today morning.
Residents of the Vorukh jamoat say the road has been reopened for traffic following negotiations between Tajik and Kyrgyz local officials and representatives of the power-wielding structures of the two countries.
According to them, the situation in border areas is now relatively stable.
We will recall that according to Kyrgyz officials, five Kyrgyz border guards, one Kyrgyz policeman, and three Tajik border guards were hospitalized with injuries on January 11 after tensions escalated into exchanges of gunfire along the Kyrgyz-Tajik border.
Vorukh is the jamoat in northern Tajikistan. It is located in Isfara district, Sughd province. The jamoat has a total population of 23,121. Vorukh forms part of an exclave of Tajikistan within Kyrgyzstan. There are several such enclaves, and they all come from Stalin”s drawing of borders in the 1930s
