Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- Today, information about “Uzbekistan’s readiness to open its borders to people fleeing the Taliban regime in Afghanistan” has spread through some channels of news agencies and websites on the Internet, the press service of the Uzbek Foreign Ministry said.

In this regard, the Press Service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan reports the following.

In order to ensure security, the Uzbek-Afghan border is currently completely closed and no land crossing through the Termez checkpoint is carried out.

In the near future, the opening of the Termez checkpoint on the Uzbek-Afghan border is not planned.

Any attempts to cross the border, regardless of their reasons, will be suppressed in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Over the past 12 days, Uzbekistan has provided assistance to a number of states in the implementation of humanitarian operations to evacuate its citizens from Afghanistan, who arrived in Uzbekistan and left Uzbekistan exclusively by air.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reiterates that the Republic of Uzbekistan does not accept Afghan refugees on its territory, provides assistance in transit, which provides for their strictly limited time in the country.

The Ministry emphasized again that the Uzbek side is firmly committed to maintaining traditionally friendly and good-neighborly relations with Afghanistan and the principles of non-interference in the internal affairs of the neighboring country.