DUSHANBE, July 10, 2014, Asia-Plus — Tajik-Kyrgyz commission for delimitation and demarcation of disputed areas of mutual border is expected to meet in the Tajik northern city of Isfara today afternoon.
Co-chaired by Tajik Deputy Prime Minister Murodali Alimardon and Kyrgyz Deputy Prime Minister Abdyrakhman Mamataliyev, the meeting will discuss the issue of construction of the roads Isfara-Vorukh and Koktash-Aksai-Tamdyk-Kishemish.
We will recall that the sides have failed to come to an agreement on construction of the Isfara-Vorukh road. During a meeting in the Tajik northern city of Qairoqqum, the Tajik side suggested on July 7 that the road should be built, maintained and controlled by Tajikistan while the Kyrgyz side insisted on joint management and control of the road.
A 130-square-kilometer fertile area around the village of Vorukh, which is populated by some 32,000 people, the vast majority of them Tajiks, is one disputed areas on the Tajik-Kyrgyz border. Legally, Vorukh is part of Tajikistan, but due to past redrawing of borders, it exists as an exclave some 20 kilometers inside Kyrgyzstan.
