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Kyrgyz, Tajik leaders meet, order ceasefire -Kyrgyz presidency

FILE PHOTO: A view shows a burnt armoured personnel carrier of Kyrgyz forces near Golovnoi water distribution facility outside the village of Kok-Tash in Batken province, Kyrgyzstan May 5, 2021. REUTERS/Vladimir Pirogov

Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov and his Tajik counterpart Emomali Rakhmon agreed at a meeting in Uzbekistan to order a ceasefire and troop pullback, the Kyrgyz president's office said on Friday.

Fighting erupted along the two countries' border while their leaders attended a summit of a Russia- and China-led regional body in Uzbekistan's Samarkand.

(Reporting by Olzhas Auyezov; Editing by Catherine Evans)

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