CSTO ready to join resolute fight against Afghan drugs - Lavrov.

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KABUL, July 20 (Itar-Tass) - Moscow expects resolute fight against the
drug industry in Afghanistan and confirms that the Collective Security
Treaty Organisation (CSTO) is ready to cooperate on that, Russian Foreign
Minister Sergei Lavrov said at an international conference on Afghanistan
in Kabul on Tuesday.
"We face a very acute task to curb Afghan drug trafficking, the
destructive influence of which has got outside the region and became a
threat to international peace and security," the top Russian diplomat
stated.
"It is important to fight that evil on the whole chain of production
and circulation of drugs - from the liquidation of drug fields to stopping
supplies of precursors and putting drug dealers on sanction lists of the
U.N. Security Council," he added.
"We expect from the Afghan government and the International Security
Assistance Force more resolute fight against the Afghan drug industry,"
Lavrov stressed. "As CSTO member state, Russia, on its part, confirms
readiness of that organisation for anti-drug cooperation," the Russian
foreign minister emphasized.
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