DUSHANBE, June 23, Asia-Plus – Today, leaders of member nations of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) will consider “alarming drug trafficking situation in Afghanistan,” Sergey Kopyrkin, deputy director of the first CIS department of the Russian MFA, said.
According to him, a record raw opium harvest is expected in
Afghanistan
this year, “and consequently, increase in drug trafficking.”
The RIA Novosti news agency reports the CSTO leaders are supposed to consider general issues of improvement of the Organization’s activity, including extending of political coordination on international arena.
