Uzbekistan returned to the homeland of Afghan border guards and militia, who switched on Sunday with weapons across the border, reported on Monday of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“Such attempts to illegal transition to the Uzbek territory will be rigidly stopped,” said the Uuzbec Foreign Ministry reports. “All citizens of Afghanistan are returned to their homeland,” added to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Interfax reports.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan, on June 27, a group of military personnel of the Afghan border troops and fighters of the national militia in the amount of 44 people violated the state border of Uzbekistan in the area of the Shorttep County. In the afternoon, on June 26, on the same site of the border, three representatives of the power structures of the neighboring country were recorded on the territory of Uzbekistan.
In the statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan dated June 24, it was said that the Uzbek side returned to his homeland 53 border guards and militia from Afghanistan, who switched on June 23, the Uzbek-Afghan border with weapons.