Moscow. April 29. INTERFAX-The conflict on the border of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan must be stopped, the situation must be defused peacefully, the Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) said on Thursday) Stanislav Zas.
"The CSTO believes that this conflict should have been stopped. It must be resolved peacefully. All necessary measures are being taken to resolve this conflict, " Zas said, as quoted by CSTO press secretary Vladimir Zainetdinov.
According to him, "the CSTO is closely monitoring and studying the situation on the Tajik-Kyrgyz border."
"The CSTO Secretary General, who was in Dushanbe today, discussed the current situation with the secretaries of the Security Councils of Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, Nasrullo Mahmudzoda and Ryskeldi Musayev," Zainetdinov said.
Earlier it was reported that on Thursday on the border of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the situation escalated, between the military of the two countries there was a shootout. Both sides have accused each other of escalating tensions.
On Thursday, in Dushanbe, the Committee of Secretaries of the Security Councils of the member States called for increasing cooperation within the framework of the CSTO in the fight against terrorism against the backdrop of the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan. Two days earlier, on April 27, a meeting of the Council of Defense Ministers of the CSTO countries was held in the capital of Tajikistan
