Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the republics of the former Soviet Union, have solved their border disputes, which aim to access water resources in the remote region.
Two Turkic countries, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, have announced a boundary demarcation agreement to settle decades of territorial conflicts.
Two Central Asian countries share a 970-kilometer border that travels through one of the world's most hilly regions. The border dispute stretches back to Soviet times when an administrative boundary between the mountainous neighbours resulted in years of conflict and strife following the Soviet Union's demise in 1991. The conflict revolved around access to water, a key resource in a large region that is particularly vulnerable to climate change and where drinking water is scarce. The accord corresponds with a widespread thaw in relations between the five ex-Soviet Central Asian countries.
