Tajik-Kyrgyz Border being agreed

RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS - In Brief 19 Mar 2024 by Alex Teddy
On March 17 the two countries stated that they had agreed on 11 km of their 972 km border. Over 700 km is now demarcated. The two nations have a border dispute dating back to the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. The countries have repeatedly fought a low level conflict over the border. Both are members of the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). The CSTO is a military alliance. Russia refused to take sides in the dispute. It will not please Moscow that the countries may resolve the issue without Russian arbitration. These are the poorest countries in the former USSR. They have few natural resources and have hundreds of thousands of their citizens as guest workers in Russia. Remittances from them are crucial for the economy of the two Central Asian nations. The situation is very complex due to Tajik exclaves inside Kyrgyzstan.

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