Relevant offices should be relocated to Batken region — MP comments on border conflict

AKIPRESS.COM - Border problems should be one of the priority issues in Kyrgyzstan, MP Karamat Orozova said today while commenting on the conflict on Kyrgyz-Tajik border. Accoridng to her, the offices of relevant state bodies and commissions should be relocated to Batken region.
"All offices should be here. To come here, resolve the conflict and then go back is not a solution," she said.
These issues can be resolved only after demarcation and delimitation activities, she noted.
On December 17, citizens of Tajikistan beat a citizen of Kyrgyzstan on the road along the conventional borderline running through Kok-Tash village of Batken district of Kyrgyzstan. The verbal exchange between Kyrgyz and Tajik citizens this morning has evolved into stone attack. According to the State Border Service of Kyrgyzstan, a fire was opened by the Tajik side at 11.50 am and a serviceman of Kyrgyzstan was wounded.