Almazbek Atambaev, who is leaving the post of the president of Kyrgyzstan in the coming days, loudly closes the door behind him: his populist statements regarding leaders of other countries do not do honor for either a politician or a decent citizen, Tajik political analyst Nurali Davlat said.
“If there are problems in the relations between the two states, then it is necessary to solve them at the negotiating table, and not through statements in the media,” said the political scientist..
The President of Kyrgyzstan Atambaev, stated at a meeting with journalists on November 20 that with Tajikistan half of the border has now been described.
“With Tajikistan, we have described half the border, and we are ready to sign these documents, but on the condition that the rest of the territory will be described by the same documents. But the relatives of President Emomali Rahmon proposed to describe the rest of the other documents. But it also does not happen that a suit from different fabrics is sewn. All issues will be resolved”, – Atambayev noted.
He also noted that 85 percent of the borders are described with Uzbekistan, 15 percent are left. "Very difficult negotiations are coming. I will help with their holding", – Atambayev noted.
It should be recalled that earlier ex-Kyrgyz President Roza Otunbayeva stated that Tajik President Emomali Rahmon evades solving problems on the border of two states.
In April 2016, she stated that the head of Tajikistan, Emomali Rahmon, shied away from solving problems on the Tajik-Kyrgyz border while she was presiding.
"I invited the Tajik leader Emomali Rahmon to the negotiating table, asked about the problems and offered to solve them, but he did everything he could to avoid switching the conversation to another channel", – Otunbayeva said in an interview with the radio station "Azattyk".
"With Islam Karimov (the president of Uzbekistan), unfortunately, the dialogue is not being built at all", – she noted then.
After her words, the Tajik embassy in Kyrgyzstan issued a statement: "Our principled position has been and remains unchanged – to build our relations with the Kyrgyz Republic on the principles of good-neighborliness, friendship and mutually beneficial partnership in all spheres of multilateral cooperation, which will undoubtedly benefit the people of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan ".
The Dushanbe diplomatic mission in Bishkek then noted that "Tajikistan is determined to continue negotiating and searching for mutually acceptable solutions, naturally, taking into account its national interests, to negotiate on the remaining areas of the state border".
Tajikistan blames Kyrgyzstan
Meanwhile, according to the source of the "AP" in the government of the country, in the course of negotiations with Kyrgyzstan on demarcation and delimitation of the state border, Tajikistan takes as a basis the documents adopted in the middle of the 20s of the last century, and Kyrgyzstan proposes to rely on documents adopted in 50th years of the last century.
According to the Tajik side, the documents adopted in the middle of the 50s of the last century have no legal force, since they were adopted unilaterally by the neighboring country and they do not take into account the interests of Tajikistan.
A source in the Tajik government also noted that the often changing composition of the government of a neighboring state also hinders the negotiation process on state border issues.
"In the middle of December of last year, the holding of a regular meeting of the intergovernmental commission of two states on the issue of demarcation and delimitation of the state border was agreed in Dushanbe, but the resignation of the Kyrgyz deputy prime minister in charge of this issue has become an obstacle to the negotiations", – the source noted.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tajikistan, the Tajik-Kyrgyz state border originates from the Alay Range, and runs along the Zaalaysky, Zeravshan, Turkestan ranges, and further to the Ferghana Valley to the point of junction of the three borders of Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.
The length of the state border of Tajikistan with Kyrgyzstan is approximately 987 km.
In accordance with the intergovernmental agreement between the Republic of Tajikistan and the Kyrgyz Republic of 2004, there are 5 checkpoints on the Tajik-Kyrgyz state border, in particular "Guliston" in Isfara district, "Madaniyat" in the area of Jabbor Rasulov and "Ovchi-Kalacha" in Bobojon Gafurov, Sughd region, "Kyzyl-Art" in the Murgab district of the Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous region and "Karamik" in the Jirgatal district.
In 2000, the border point between the Republic of Tajikistan, the Kyrgyz Republic and the People's Republic of China was determined by signing a trilateral agreement between these countries.
During the existence of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Republic of Tajikistan and the Kyrgyz Republic were part of the same country, and they were separated only by the administrative border.
After the collapse of the USSR, and the acquisition of independence by Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, the question arose about the need to determine the state border line (delimitation).
To this end, in 2000, the two countries established an intergovernmental Commission on the delimitation and demarcation of the Tajik-Kyrgyz State Border.
Bilateral negotiations on the delimitation and demarcation of the Tajik-Kyrgyz State Border began in 2002, and by the end of 2013 more than 500 kilometers of the border were delimited.
Meetings of the Intergovernmental Commission with the participation of representatives of relevant ministries, departments and industry experts of the two countries are held 3-4 times a year, which discuss issues related to the delimitation and demarcation of the state border.
