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Iran, Afghanistan emphasized need for implementing judiciary agreements
Deputy Head of Iran’s Anti-Narcotics Campaign Headquarter and his accompanying delegation here Monday evening in a meeting with Afghanistan’s Prosecutor General Es’haq Elco asked for implementation of reached judiciary agreements between two countries.
According to IRNA correspondent in Kabul, the two sides agreed that a joint committee would be established to monitor the process of implementation of the three agreements reached between the two countries’ judiciary forces in the year 2006 over judiciary cooperation, repatriation fugitives of and transfer of runaway criminals to the other country’s prisons.
Taheri in the meeting emphasized that Iran is ready for transferring its experience in training judiciary police and campaign against anti-narcotic drug trafficking.
He pointed out that the two countries can pursue a harmonious anti-narcotic drug campaign, asking for both the Afghan government’s and the international community’s greater attention to the introduction, and presentation of methods for plantation of replacement other valuable crops for poppy flowers to Afghan farmers.
He said that Iran’s assistance in construction of new border police stations, rehabilitation of addicts, and boosting border security are among the major points of the two countries’ cooperation agreements.
The Afghan Prosecutor General Es’haq Elco, too, welcomed the idea of training the Afghan judges and judiciary police force by Iranian masters, arguing, “Keeping in mind the two nations’ shared cultures and shared languages, the process of training the Afghan forces by their Iranian brethren would be a lot easier and Kabul is quite ready and willing to use Iran’s experience in anti-narcotic drug campaign.”
Appreciating Iran’s generous contributions to the reconstruction process of Afghanistan, he said that the two countries’ political relations are at excellent level and that there are very appropriate fields for bilateral judiciary cooperation.
Praising Iran’s efforts in anti-narcotic drugs campaign, the Afghan official said that his country would in near future dispatch a delegation comprised of the prosecutor’s office and the judiciary force officials to Iran.
Taheri arrived in Afghanistan on Monday on an invitation extended to him by Afghanistan’s Minister of Campaign Against Narcotic Drugs Trafficking Khodaidad and is scheduled to attend a trilateral meeting among Iran, Afghanistan and the United Nations on Narcotics problem in Kabul on Wednesday.
According to the 2008 UN report, out of 157,000 hectares of poppy flower farms in Afghanistan 1,700 tons of opium is extracted annually, 90% of which is turned into morphine.
The annual value of the narcotics produced in Afghanistan is estimated to be around four billion US dollars a year.
500 million dollars of that amount is the share of the warlords and 25% of it belongs to the poor poppy flower farmers.
Afghanistan’s annual narcotic drugs turnover is 1.1 million dollars above that country’s annual budget.
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According to IRNA correspondent in Kabul, the two sides agreed that a joint committee would be established to monitor the process of implementation of the three agreements reached between the two countries’ judiciary forces in the year 2006 over judiciary cooperation, repatriation fugitives of and transfer of runaway criminals to the other country’s prisons.
Taheri in the meeting emphasized that Iran is ready for transferring its experience in training judiciary police and campaign against anti-narcotic drug trafficking.
He pointed out that the two countries can pursue a harmonious anti-narcotic drug campaign, asking for both the Afghan government’s and the international community’s greater attention to the introduction, and presentation of methods for plantation of replacement other valuable crops for poppy flowers to Afghan farmers.
He said that Iran’s assistance in construction of new border police stations, rehabilitation of addicts, and boosting border security are among the major points of the two countries’ cooperation agreements.
The Afghan Prosecutor General Es’haq Elco, too, welcomed the idea of training the Afghan judges and judiciary police force by Iranian masters, arguing, “Keeping in mind the two nations’ shared cultures and shared languages, the process of training the Afghan forces by their Iranian brethren would be a lot easier and Kabul is quite ready and willing to use Iran’s experience in anti-narcotic drug campaign.”
Appreciating Iran’s generous contributions to the reconstruction process of Afghanistan, he said that the two countries’ political relations are at excellent level and that there are very appropriate fields for bilateral judiciary cooperation.
Praising Iran’s efforts in anti-narcotic drugs campaign, the Afghan official said that his country would in near future dispatch a delegation comprised of the prosecutor’s office and the judiciary force officials to Iran.
Taheri arrived in Afghanistan on Monday on an invitation extended to him by Afghanistan’s Minister of Campaign Against Narcotic Drugs Trafficking Khodaidad and is scheduled to attend a trilateral meeting among Iran, Afghanistan and the United Nations on Narcotics problem in Kabul on Wednesday.
According to the 2008 UN report, out of 157,000 hectares of poppy flower farms in Afghanistan 1,700 tons of opium is extracted annually, 90% of which is turned into morphine.
The annual value of the narcotics produced in Afghanistan is estimated to be around four billion US dollars a year.
500 million dollars of that amount is the share of the warlords and 25% of it belongs to the poor poppy flower farmers.
Afghanistan’s annual narcotic drugs turnover is 1.1 million dollars above that country’s annual budget.
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