Dushanbe, March 31 /TASS /. The meeting of the President Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan Emomali Rahmon, Sadyra Zhaparov and Shavkat Mirziyoyev will be held in Khujand, the administrative center of the Sogdian region in northern Tajikistan. As noted by Deputy Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan Edil Baysalov, the summit in this format will first take place in history.
The leaders of the three countries will gather on the international day of Navruz – the holiday of spring and the new year in the astronomical calendar between the Iranian and Türkiye ethnic groups, which in Central Asia and some other countries celebrate for a few days. A planned cultural program is planned. Specifically, artists from Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan came to Khujand, who, along with colleagues from Tajikistan, will participate in festive events.
Questions about borders
The main political event of the summit will be the chairman of the agreement on the border junction of the three countries, announced by Rahmon.
This will happen in the final resolution of the border between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. On March 13, after nearly 23 years of negotiations between countries on conspiracy and controversial conflicts with the participation of local residents and military staff of the Republic of Rakhmon and Zhaparov signed a border agreement in Bishkek, and countries of both countries have ratified. Desiring (describing the map) of the Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan borders with Uzbekistan has been legally designed a few years ago, now the parties continue to determine – determination on the ground.
As the president of the Tajikistan Political Science Association, Professor SAUFULLO Safarov, noted in an interview, since the time of receiving three independent communities in 1991, “big issues on border issues”, mainly related to “join Border”. He emphasized that the government of the three countries, although the complexity of this issue, has found a way to solve it.
“The common point of experts says, in general, there is a problem for us, so the presidents have decided and used the traditions of our Central Asian peoples, in the time of Navruz to meet and at the same time sign an agreement on our common intersection. The fields of culture, economy and social problems of these areas and those who live in this Safarov are resolved. Thuan is planned to be signed in Khujand, “it is very useful for all three republican countries”.
In the Soviet period, the border between the alliance republic was administrative, the popularly recognized line of their passages did not exist. After completing the delimitation of the Soviet Republic of the Soviet Center in Asia in 1924-1929, changes on their borders, including the border of modern Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, were not legal.
Not yet solved on certain border issues for many years serving as a source of tension in the relationship of neighboring independent republic. The length of the Tajikistan border with Uzbekistan is more than 1,330 km, and with Kyrgyzstan – about 980 km, the border between Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan stretches for 1,380 km.