DUSHANBE, August 3, 2015, Asia-Plus – Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has urged to strengthen the Tajik Afghan-border.

According to the Tajik president’s official website, Rahmon stated this on July 31 during an address to a meeting of regional administrators in the city of Khorog, the capital of the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO).

“Although the current situation on the border is calm, there are domestic and external factors that can change the situation along the [Tajik-Afghan] border,” the president said.

One of such factors is increase in the number terrorist and extremist acts committed in Afghanistan’s regions bordering Tajikistan, the president noted.    

According to him, all these factors require taking additional measures to strengthen the national border and improve training of military units deployed in border areas.   

“We are taking adequate measures to prevent possible threats,” Rahmon said and urged relevant officials and local population to actively collaborate with the law enforcement authorities.

The president further added that about 50 million somoni had been spent in recent years for rehabilitation and construction of frontier posts along the Tajik-Afghan border in Gorno Badakhshan.