Kyrgyzstan/Tajikistan: More Than a ‘Border Skirmish’ between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan

Sep 19, 2022 | Aijan Sharshenova, Diplomat
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On September 14, two servicemen of the Kyrgyz State Committee for National Security were injured in the course of heavy shelling from the Tajik side of the border near the Bulak-Bashy area. By noon, the shelling stopped, and in the afternoon, Kyrgyz and Tajik regional leaders met to discuss the situation at the border. On September 16, the border issue was discussed by Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov and Tajik President Emomali Rahmon during their bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.