NO NARCOTIC PLANTS CULTIVATED IN KARABAKH
PanARMENIAN.Net
28.06.2006 16:06 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Nagorno Karabakh is not a transit territory for drug
flow, Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Gegham Gharibjanian stated in
Moscow during an international conference dedicated to the problem
of drug traffic from Afghanistan. He refuted the allegation by Azeri
Deputy FM Halaf Halafov, who said that various narcotic plants are
being cultivated on the "uncontrolled" territories around Nagorno
Karabakh and then conveyed to European states.
"Azeri politicians often say that Nagorno Karabakh is a transit
territory for drug flow. These statements are false," he said quoting
one of the reports on the drug flow from Afghanistan published in the
U.S. The report says that Azerbaijan itself is a transit territory
for drug traffic.
"If Nagorno Karabakh is not recognized by the intentional community
it does not mean that this territory is beyond control," Gegham
Gharibjanian underscored, reported Novosti-Armenia.