CSTO can help normalize situation at Kyrgyz - Tajik border - Stanislav Zas
CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas said on Wednesday that the organization had the resources to help normalize the situation on the Tajik-Kyrgyz border, if both states deemed it necessary.
«In the Central Asian region we attach particular importance to further normalization of relations on the Tajik-Kyrgyz border. We believe that the CSTO has the necessary resources and experience to assist our two states in achieving this goal,» he said during a meeting of the organization’s statutory bodies in Yerevan.
The regular session of the CSTO Collective Security Council was held in the capital of Armenia. The participants discussed the situation in the CSTO area of responsibility and topical issues of international security.
President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov also took part in the session.
Shooting began at several sites of the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan on the morning of September 16. Settlements in Leilek and Batken district came under fire. The Ministry of Health reported 206 victims, 63 people were killed. As a result of the armed conflict on the Kyrgyz-Tajik border, residents of seven villages in Batken and Leilek districts, as well as Dzhekendi village in Chon-Alai district of Osh region, left their homes.
The Prosecutor General’s Office of Kyrgyzstan opened a criminal case on crimes against peace.
