CSTO COORDINATION BOARD ON FIGHT AGAINST DRUG TRAFFICKING COMPLETES ITS WORK IN YEREVAN

Noyan Tapan
Mar 29 2006

YEREVAN, MARCH 29, NOYAN TAPAN. The coordination board of heads of
the bodies that deal with drug trafficking issues in the Collective
Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) countries completed its work in
Yerevan on March 29. Victor Cherkesov, the board chairman, Director
of the RF Federal Service for Control over Drug Trafficking, told
reporters that the results of the operative-preventive measures
against international drug trafficking in 2005 were summarized at
the sitting. He noted with satisfaction that in addition to the
6 CSTO member states – Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan and Russia, representatives of Iran, Pakistan, Azerbaijan,
Uzbekistan and Ukraine took part in the sitting. He said that besides
the 12 countries that participated in the operations, the US and
Mongolia applied to the coordination board with a proposal to be
involved in the solution of the problem with the Afghan channel
of drug trafficking. According to V. Cherkesov, his department has
no information about drug trafficking from or via the NKR. The RA
Police Chief Hayk Harutyunian underlined that the issue is being
irrelevantly politicized, it does not correspond to the reality: the
whole territory of the Nagorno Karabakh Republic is being controlled by
the law-enforcement bodies of the NKR, whose members, in his opinion,
are professionals today.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress