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Border guards from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan will stop attempts at provocations and shooting/Such an agreement was reached at a meeting attended by the leaders of the border troops of both countries. The press service of the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan reported on the results of the meeting on its Telegram channel.
According to the report, the heads of the regional departments of border services of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan were appointed to be responsible for organizing work to prevent provocations at the border section in the Batken region in Kyrgyzstan.< /p>
In addition, the Joint Operations Command will help coordinate actions. In addition to the heads of border departments, it also included the heads of law enforcement agencies and territorial departments of the Batken region of Kyrgyzstan and the Sughd region of Tajikistan. The operational command operates at the Guliston-avtodorozhny checkpoint
The situation on the border of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan escalated on September 14. Clashes between the border guards of the two countries continued during Friday. The presidents of Kyrgyzstan, Sadyr Japarov, and Tajikistan, Emomali Rahmon, agreed on a ceasefire during talks on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Samarkand.