The CSTO program to strengthen the Tajik-Afghan border is planned for approval in 2024
Dushanbe is confident that the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) program to strengthen the section on the border of Tajikistan and Afghanistan will be signed in 2024. This was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Tajik Republic Sirojiddin Mukhriddin.
The minister explained that the initiative of the President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon to create a security belt around Afghanistan shared by him at international platforms provides not only for the construction of fortifications on the border, but also “for creating conditions on both sides of the border line for cooperation and improvement of the social and economic situation in the border provinces of Afghanistan.”
The Chief of the CSTO Joint Staff Colonel General Andrei Serdyukov reported at a briefing on February 14 that there was an increase in the number of militants of the Islamic State (organization banned in Russia) near the southern borders of Tajikistan and the network of field training camps was expanding.
Emomali Rakhmon suggested creating a security belt around Afghanistan in January 2022 at an extraordinary CSTO summit. He emphasized that the increased activity of international terrorist groups in Afghanistan directly affects the CSTO collective security zone.