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| CSTO may send peacekeepers to the Kyrgyz-Tajik border |
| 2022-01-29 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [REGNUM] The CSTO peacekeeping contingent may well be brought into the zone of the Kyrgyz-Tajik conflict, but this requires a request from at least one side. On January 28, a leading expert at the Center for Military-Political Research at MGIMO Mikhail Alexandrov told a REGNUM correspondent . "The CSTO is quite capable of influencing the situation, it's just that the CSTO acts only when the parties themselves ask for help, or at least one side. Apparently, neither side is asking for help. Then, apparently, they somehow need to "let off steam", shoot at each other for some time, suffer losses, understand that there will be no reasonable decisions, and then ask for help from the CSTO," the expert said. The political scientist noted that after a request for help, the CSTO could bring in peacekeeping forces, create a demilitarized border zone in the border area, in which people from both sides could live normally and use water. If such a request, the expert believes, then there will be no problems with the solution. Recall that on January 27, armed festivities took place on the border of the Batken region of Kyrgyzstan and the Sughd region of Tajikistan. |
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