DUSHANBE
, May 17,
Asia
-Plus – An international conference on countering regional drug trafficking is ending in
Dushanbe
today. The penal drew participants from more than 20 countries.
Today, participants at the conference are supposed to work out proposals on preventing drug threat emanating from
Afghanistan
.
President Rahmonov said on Monday [May 15] that
Tajikistan
had become initiator of holding of such meetings not for the first time. He called on all countries to work out single approach to the fight against drug threat in
Afghanistan
. “No one country is able to fight this evil alone,” said Rahmonov, “It is the problem not only of
Tajikistan
,
Afghanistan
and
Central Asia
but also of the whole international community.” The president noted that drug production in
Afghanistan
has “tripled” since September 2001. “We have initiated creation of the single concept of fighting drug threat in
Afghanistan
,” said Rahmonov, “Seizure of drugs on the border is just only one of methods of the fight against this evil, and we propose to nip this evil in the bud in
Afghanistan
.”
Chairman of
Tajikistan
’s Committee for Protection of the State Border of Tajikistan Saydamir Zuhurov and
George
C. Marshall
European
Center
for Security Studies Director Dr. John P. Rose will give a news conference today on conclusion of the conference.
