Central Asian border problems stem largely from Soviet times. Kyrgyzstan, which on Friday said 24 citizens had been killed and dozens wounded in the violence, accused Tajik forces of shelling its border posts on several occasions on Saturday.
Tajikistan has not given any official death toll, but security sources said at least seven people were killed on Friday. Border guards reported Saturday that one of their outposts in another area had been bombed.
However, the government of the northern Tajik province of Sughd – where the fighting took place – said on Saturday that tensions were easing in the border area.
“As a result of the meetings between the delegations of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, the situation on the border is stabilizing and people are returning to normal life,” it said in a statement.
Both countries are home to Russian military bases and are members of various Russian-led military and economic blocs.
Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon and his Kyrgyz counterpart, Sadyr Japarov, were attending a meeting of a regional body run by Russia and China this week when border violence erupted.
The Moscow-led Collective Security Treaty Organization declared on Saturday that the use of force in the border conflict between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan was unacceptable, Interfax reported. (Reporting by Olga Dzyubenko. Additional reporting by Nazarali Pirnazarov in Dushanbe, written by Olzhas Auyezov; Editing in Spanish by Javier Leira)
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