Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan reached ceasefire after heavy clashes.
Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmon has met his Kyrgyz counterpart SadyrJaparov at a summit in Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan said and ordered their forces to draw down after border clashes left dozens injured.
“The leaders of the two countries agreed to instruct the relevant structures to cease fire and withdraw forces and assets from the line of contact,” the Kyrgyz presidency said in a statement following Friday’s meeting, after Kyrgyz authorities announced a ceasefire deal had been reached.
🇰🇬Kyrgyz Military filming results of fighting along the border with Tajikistan 🇹🇯
🇰🇬In Kyrgyzstan 18,000 ppl were evacuated from the conflict zone with 🇹🇯
Ceasefire reached but quickly broken.
🇰🇬🇹🇯 border has been getting hotter since 2002. WWIII moment
🔗 Kyrgyz Red Crescent pic.twitter.com/ql0sLoSzqo
— Conrad (WWIII⚡️Analyst) (@GnomeRad) September 16, 2022
Kyrgyzstan had accused Tajikistan’s forces of escalating the fighting by firing rockets on the border town of Batken, with a population of around 30,000 people in the southeast of the country.
Shortly after, Kyrgyzstan’s border guards said in a statement that the two countries’ national security chiefs had agreed on a ceasefire that would begin at 16:00 local time (1000 GMT).
