BATKEN, Kyrgyzstan -- Kyrgyz authorities in the southern region of Batken have started buying property belonging to Tajik citizens along the Kyrgyz-Tajik border, RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service reports.
The head of Aksai village administration, Joldosh Satybaldiev, told RFE/RL that the purchases concern houses situated on territory that Bishkek considers part of Kyrgyzstan.
According to Satybaldiev, the Kyrgyz government has allocated a significant amount of money for the project.
About 40 houses in the village of Tash-Tumshuk along the border were sold to Tajik citizens after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
The Kyrgyz-Tajik border has been a sensitive issue for many years as many parts of the border are disputed and there are small exclaves of territory belonging to Tajikistan within Kyrgyzstan.
Read in Kyrgyz here.
The head of Aksai village administration, Joldosh Satybaldiev, told RFE/RL that the purchases concern houses situated on territory that Bishkek considers part of Kyrgyzstan.
According to Satybaldiev, the Kyrgyz government has allocated a significant amount of money for the project.
About 40 houses in the village of Tash-Tumshuk along the border were sold to Tajik citizens after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
The Kyrgyz-Tajik border has been a sensitive issue for many years as many parts of the border are disputed and there are small exclaves of territory belonging to Tajikistan within Kyrgyzstan.
Read in Kyrgyz here.