Incident on border discussed by FMs of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan

Bishkek, May 6, 2022. / Kabar /. Foreign Ministers of Kyrgyzstan Jeenbek Kulubaev and Uzbekistan Vladimir Norov today during a telephone conversation discussed the incident that occurred on Thursday at the border.

The press service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic said that the interlocutors discussed the incident that occurred on May 5, 2022 in the territory of Kyrgyzstan in the area of ​​Tobo-Korgon of Jalal-Abad Oblast, with the use of weapons by the military personnel of the Border Troops of Uzbekistan, as a result of which three Kyrgyz citizens of the Republic died.

The sides stressed the need for joint efforts to avoid negative consequences in the border area, as well as to continue work to strengthen and expand Kyrgyz-Uzbek cooperation on the basis of friendship and good neighborliness.