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Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan relations
Map indicating locations of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan

Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan

Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan relations refers to the bilateral diplomatic relations between the Republic of Tajikistan and the Kyrgyz Republic. Kyrgyzstan–Tajikistan relations have in recent years been tense.[1] Refugees and antigovernment fighters in Tajikistan have crossed into Kyrgyzstan several times, even taking hostages.[1] Kyrgyzstan attempted to assist in brokering an agreement between contesting Tajikistani forces in October 1992 but without success.[1] Askar Akayev later joined presidents Islam Karimov and Nursultan Nazarbayev in sending a joint intervention force to support Tajikistan's president Emomalii Rahmon against insurgents, but the Kyrgyzstani parliament delayed the mission of its small contingent for several months until late spring 1993. In mid-1995 Kyrgyzstani forces had the responsibility of sealing a small portion of the Tajikistan border near Panj from Tajikistani rebel forces.

The greater risk to Kyrgyzstan from Tajikistan is the general destabilization that the protracted civil war has brought to the region. In particular, the Khorugh-Osh road, the so-called "highway above the clouds," has become a major conduit of contraband of all sorts, including weapons and drugs. A meeting of the heads of the state security agencies of Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan, held in Osh in the spring of 1995, also drew the conclusion that ethnic, social, and economic conditions in Osh were increasingly similar to those in Tajikistan in the late 1980s, thus recognizing the contagion of Tajikistan's instability.

Conflicts with Uzbekistan

Due to having conflicts with neighbor Uzbekistan, both Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan raise supports for each others. During the 2010 South Kyrgyzstan ethnic clashes between Uzbeks and Kyrgyzs, Tajikistan demanded Uzbek minority "to show respects on Kyrgyz laws".

State Visits

Presidential visits from Tajikistan to Kyrgyzstan

  • Emomali Rahmon (January 1993)
  • Emomali Rahmon (May 1998)
  • Emomali Rahmon (September 2007)[2]
  • Emomali Rahmon (May 2013)[3]

Presidential visits from Kyrgyzstan to Tajikistan

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Martha Brill Olcott. "Central Asian Neighbors". Kyrgyzstan: a country study (Glenn E. Curtis, editor). Library of Congress Federal Research Division (March 1996). This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ^ https://jamestown.org/program/tajikistan-and-kyrgyzstan-agree-to-deepen-security-cooperation/
  3. ^ http://m.president.kg/ru/news/2109_sostoyalas_tseremoniya_ofitsialnoy_vstrechi_prezidenta_kyirgyizskoy_respubliki_almazbeka_atambaeva_i_prezidenta_respubliki_tadjikistan_emomali_rahmona/
  4. ^ http://mfa.tj/?l=en&cat=90&art=157
  5. ^ http://m.president.kg/ru/novosti/11373_prezident_sooronbay_jeenbekov_pribyil_s_ofitsialnyim_vizitom_v_tadjikistan/
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