DUSHANBE
, February 9, Asia-Plus – A center is to be set up in
Kazakhstan
for countering drugs trafficking in the region, Asia-Plus has learned from Fayzullo Adbulloyev, deputy director of
Tajikistan
’s Drug Control Agency.
The Asia-Plus interlocutor said the decision to set up the
Central
Asian
Center
on the Fight against Drugs in
Astana
,
Kazakhstan
”s capital, had been made by the signatories to a regional memorandum on cooperation in countering the production, trade, and abuse of drugs.
The memorandum brings together five Central Asian former soviet republics (
Kazakhstan
,
Kyrgyzstan
,
Tajikistan
,
Turkmenistan
, and
Uzbekistan
), as well as
Russia
,
Azerbaijan
, and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
