Any man being nation-conscious possesses a sense of patriotism to this or that extent. He/she can’t help loving his/her Motherland in a broad sense of this world, nation, that part of the globe he/she was born in. in any democratic country man is a primal value and he/she himself/herself has a right to decide where to live, whom to trust the fate if he/she finds himself/herself in a desperate position. It is that very approach in regard to the peoples the international laws proclaim enabling them to determine themselves their own fates. However, very often these norms are incompatible with big politics when the latters enters the world. The Great Russian Empire being a residue of the Soviet Empire were guided with these norms now it would smash to smithereens at once, over half hundred states, at least, would form on its territory. If the peoples inhabiting this or that land were allowed to determine by virtue of referendum their appurtenance to the earth they live on the world political map would look completely otherwise today. In that case a part of Kazakhstan territory might accrue to Russia; Abkhazia would become an independent state; Bukhara and Samarkand, Surkhan-Darya and Ferghana viloyats of Uzbekistan could be included into the Tajik state; and Uzbekistan would possibly take hold of Osh province of Kyrgyzstan.
On the territory of Central Asia there is an enclave three states - Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan - may equally claim for. It is the whole district with the population mustering fifty two thousand people. According to its status the enclave is a territorial unit of Uzbekistan for today. Geographically it is located in the depth of the territory of Kyrgyzstan. By the structure of its population the enclave has no reference either to the first or to the second state, as over ninety percent of it are Tajiks. It is Sokh district of Uzbekistan included into Ferghana viloyat. Now Central Asian states, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, in particular, are at the stage of terminating negotiations on demarcation and delimitation of state frontiers; however, disputable territories become a stumbling-block in negotiations; enclaves, Sokh inclusive, refer just here. For the time being two states - Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan - claim for it, though it is Tajikistan whose rationale is much weightier - not only because of Tajiks making up the majority of population. However, the present leadership of Tajikistan comprehending the senselessness of territorial disputes doesn’t display any strivings to retrieve Sokh. At least, at the present stage of negotiations. It is not exclusive though that in the course of bilateral negotiations with Uzbekistan which the governments of the two countries try not to divulge the issue on Sokh status may be touched on.
As for the fate of one more arguable territory - that of Vorukh Tajik enclave inside the territory of Kyrgyzstan and mustering over twenty thousand people inhabiting it, debates are going on. Vorukh being the territory of Tajikistan it the fact acknowledged by the Kyrgyz side as well. The matter is of a different slant here: where should the frontiers of Tajikistan be delineated?