Kyrgzystan’s defence ministry said on Wednesday that peace with Tajikistan was not possible under the current circumstances, a month after border clashes between the two Central Asian neighbours left around a hundred people dead. Tajikistan later accused its neighbour of seeking to “escalate” the situation near the border. Clashes regularly erupt between the two former Soviet republics, as around half of their 970-kilometre (600-mile) border has been contested since the end of the Soviet Union. Fighting last month in the southern Kyrgyz region of Batken, bordering Tajikistan, left around a hun…