Kyrgyz-Tajik border deal paves way for breakthrough in regional harmony

The leaders of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and also Uzbekistan will meet for a historic three-way summit in the Tajik city of Khujand in late March.

Kamchybek Tashiyev, head of Kyrgyzstan’s State Committee for National Security, left, walking in the corridors of the presidential administration in Bishkek alongside his Tajik counterpart, Saimumin Yatimov.

In the end, they made it look easy.

After decades of increasingly bitter and violent confrontations between residents and government troops along dis…