The head of the Ministry of Defense of Kyrgyzstan, Baktybek Bekbolotov, proposed deploying a small contingent from the CSTO on the border with Tajikistan to maintain peace, RIA Novosti reports.
“I recently met with CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas. I told him that there would be no peace between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. Why? Because the Kyrgyz have their own truth, the Tajiks have their own. Until an arbitrator comes between us, for example, a small contingent of the CSTO, peace cannot be achieved,” the minister said at a press conference in Bishkek on Wednesday.
He said that peacekeepers could control the ceasefire and ensure that the parties do not pull additional forces and equipment to the border.
“When these problems are solved, it is possible to solve political issues – to continue the delimitation and demarcation of the border,” he stressed.
The undefined territories between the two states periodically become a zone of conflict. The last time the situation on the Tajik-Kyrgyz border escalated on September 14-16. The Kyrgyz side reported 63 dead and 198 injured citizens as a result of clashes. Tajikistan announced 41 dead and 30 injured.
On September 25, representatives of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan signed a protocol on the settlement of the situation, in which they agreed to end conflicts on the border and speed up the process of delimitation and demarcation. Also, according to the document, the parties agreed to mothball four border points in those places where conflicts most often occurred.
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Oct. 19, 2022