DUSHANBE, November 25, 2008, Asia-Plus  -- Tajik and Kyrgyz security council secretaries are meeting in Batken, Kyrgyzstan today afternoon to discuss the joint border delineation issues. 

Security Council Secretary Amirqul Azimov and his Kyrgyz counterpart Adakhan Madumraov are supposed to discuss the progress of implementation of decisions made at the previous meeting that was held in Isfara, Tajikistan on April 29 this year.

At first, the security council secretaries will hold a bilateral meeting and after this, they will hold an extended-format meeting with participation of members of the government commissions of the two countries.

The meeting is expected to result in signing of the preliminary document on providing security of the common border and continuing mutually beneficial cooperation.

We will recall that the April 29 meeting participants agreed to set up commissions at levels of heads of provinces and districts of the two countries for preventing and settling conflict situations.  They also agreed to ban any economical activity in the disputable territories until the border delineation work is completed.