Kyrgyzstan News » Batken News Kyrgyzstan » Batken » Traffic: Kyrgyz-Tajik Border Agreement Hoped for in ‘Nearest Future’
Kyrgyz and Tajik officials are hopeful of completing border negotiations in the next two to three months. If an agreement is indeed reached, it will signal a major milestone in a long-running border ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken » Traffic: Kyrgyzstan: Batken facility "not oriented against third countries"
First, the speculation was that the U.S.-funded anti-terror center in Kyrgyzstan's Batken region was a U.S. ploy for geopolitical influence. Then, it was a Kyrgyz ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken » Traffic: Kyrgyzstan Says Border With Tajikistan Can Reopen 'Gradually' After Delimitation Work
BATKEN, Kyrgyzstan -- Authorities in Kyrgyzstan’s southern region of Batken say the border with Tajikistan, shut down more than two years ago following a deadly standoff, can "gradually reopen" after ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken » Traffic: IDA Helps the Kyrgyz Republic’s Batken Rebuild after Conflict
In September 2022, conflict along the Kyrgyz Republic’s southwestern border caused significant damages to the country’s Batken region. A project supported by the International Development Association ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken » Traffic: Hope and Fear on the Kyrgyz-Tajik Border
On January 28, the president of Kyrgyzstan, Sadyr Japarov, took questions from reporters on the evolving negotiations delimiting the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. As a problem that has ...
News Kyrgyzstan » Batken » Traffic: Kyrgyzstan’s Batken Region bordering Tajikistan to receive special status
The draft law on the status of the Batken Region says that the local government bodies will be given special powers to coordinate the activity of local institutions and cooperate with the law ...