DUSHANBE. Sept 30 (Interfax) - The situation on the Tajik-Afghan border is normal, seemingly without any incidents, a source in Tajikistan's security authorities told Interfax on Thursday.
"We are not seeing any accumulation of armed groups on the adjacent side of the joint border. The situation is normal, stable, no provocations were reported," the source said.
Earlier on Thursday, the Russian Foreign Ministry expressed concern over rising tension on the border between Tajikistan and Afghanistan.
"We are watching with concern the increasing tensions in Tajik-Afghan relations against the backdrop of mutual recriminations between the leaders of the two countries. There have been reports about armed forces being pulled to the joint border on either side. According to information from the Taliban movement [a terrorist organization banned in Russia], in the Afghan border province of Takhar alone there are now tens of thousands of special-forces fighters," Alexei Zaitsev, Deputy Director of the Ministry's department of information and press, said at a briefing in Moscow.
Moscow urges Dushanbe and Kabul to "search for mutually acceptable ways to settle this situation," Zaitsev said.