The Tajik government’s release, carried by Avesta on 15 July, says joint working groups of the two states’ demarcation commission have started at the tri-point, executing the border treaty signed in Bishkek on 13 March 2025 and the Khujand Declaration of eternal friendship the three neighboring presidents signed that 31 March. The disputes the posts now settle ran from 2002; the villages along this line buried dead in 2021 and 2022.
One number in the release is the honest measure of what remains. Of the 1,008.14 kilometers, sections holding what the release calls neutral status run 14.07 kilometers along their perimeter. The release does not define the designation or say when and how those sections convert, and that 1.4% of the border is precisely where the treaty’s remaining work lives.
For the file this is the conversion this desk waits for on every signed page: a treaty becoming trigonometry. Survey posts change what a dispute is about: from where the line runs to who crossed it, a smaller and more manageable kind of quarrel. Watch the pace of installation, the first posts on formerly contested sections, and what mechanism the two capitals announce for the 14 neutral kilometers, because that mechanism, when it comes, will be the treaty’s real test.