CSTO Secretary-General visits Tajik-Afghan border, reviews fortification efforts
Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Secretary General Taalatbek Masadykov has visited Tajikistan and inspected sections of the Tajik-Afghan border to review progress in strengthening the frontier, the CSTO press service said.
According to the organization, Masadykov made the working visit at the personal invitation of Tajik President Emomali Rahmon.
During the trip, the CSTO chief reportedly assessed the security situation along the southern section of the organization’s external border. He visited several border outposts and a checkpoint operated by three Tajik border detachments deployed along the frontier with Afghanistan.
Masadykov also inspected the construction of a border road in the Shuroabad direction (Shamsiddin-Shohin district in Tajikistan’s Khatlon province), which passes through remote mountainous terrain and is intended to improve access to border areas. During a meeting with Lieutenant-General Murodali Rajabzoda, First Deputy Chairman of Tajikistan’s State Committee for National Security (SCNS) and Commander of the Border Troops, the two discussed reportedly the implementation of the CSTO Targeted Interstate Program to strengthen the Tajik-Afghan border.
The approximately 1,350-kilometer Tajik-Afghan border is regarded as one of the most strategically important sections of the CSTO’s external frontier. The organization’s Targeted Interstate Program, approved by the CSTO Collective Security Council at its summit in Astana on November 28, 2024, entered its implementation phase in 2026. The program, aimed at modernizing border infrastructure and enhancing technical capabilities, is scheduled to be carried out in three stages through 2029.
According to the organization, Masadykov made the working visit at the personal invitation of Tajik President Emomali Rahmon.
During the trip, the CSTO chief reportedly assessed the security situation along the southern section of the organization’s external border. He visited several border outposts and a checkpoint operated by three Tajik border detachments deployed along the frontier with Afghanistan.
Masadykov also inspected the construction of a border road in the Shuroabad direction (Shamsiddin-Shohin district in Tajikistan’s Khatlon province), which passes through remote mountainous terrain and is intended to improve access to border areas. During a meeting with Lieutenant-General Murodali Rajabzoda, First Deputy Chairman of Tajikistan’s State Committee for National Security (SCNS) and Commander of the Border Troops, the two discussed reportedly the implementation of the CSTO Targeted Interstate Program to strengthen the Tajik-Afghan border.
The approximately 1,350-kilometer Tajik-Afghan border is regarded as one of the most strategically important sections of the CSTO’s external frontier. The organization’s Targeted Interstate Program, approved by the CSTO Collective Security Council at its summit in Astana on November 28, 2024, entered its implementation phase in 2026. The program, aimed at modernizing border infrastructure and enhancing technical capabilities, is scheduled to be carried out in three stages through 2029.
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