Kyrgyzstan completes border settlement with Tajikistan

Kyrgyzstan has completed the demarcation of disputed sections of its border with Tajikistan, Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers and head of the State Committee for National Security (GKNB) Kamchybek Tashiev announced.

According to the official, some 114 kilometres of fencing have been installed along the border, Caliber.Az reports per Kyrgyz media.

“It may already be 120 kilometres, as the work continues nonstop, day and night. All wire barriers are produced inside Kyrgyzstan,” Tashiev said.

The GKNB chief added that 181 new houses with additional plots have been built for the residents who were relocated.

Tashiev also emphasised that the authorities now clearly understand where the state border lies, which land belongs to whom, and who bears responsibility for each section.

He noted that past disorder, disputes, conflicts and uncertainty would no longer occur, as every part of the border has been documented and entered into the state maps.

The United Nations welcomed the deal as a “historic step toward regional stability."

The Kyrgyz-Tajik border has been disputed for decades because large sections of the Soviet-era administrative line were never fully defined after 1991. Clashes over land, water and access roads repeatedly broke out in the Ferghana Valley, culminating in major violence in April 2021 and September 2022. These confrontations caused dozens of deaths and displaced thousands of civilians from both sides.

A breakthrough came in early 2025 when the two governments signed and ratified a full delimitation agreement that formally settled the border.

By Jeyhun Aghazada