MOSCOW. April 4 (Interfax-AVN) - The secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime are planning to sign a cooperation protocol, and CSTO Secretary General Nikolai Bordyuzha is leaving for Vienna for the ceremony on Tuesday.
"The planned event will legally document the fruitful cooperation between CSTO and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime that has lasted for several years. Information is shared and consultations conducted at various levels in this framework," Bordyuzha told Interfax-Military News Agency before his departure.
The draft protocol "provides for scaling up cooperation between the parties in combating the illegal turnover of drugs and international terrorism and trans-border crime, which are related to this threat," he said. "In particular, we plan exchanges of data, non-classified legal documents, and recommendations on issues if mutual interests, as well as cooperation in developing and implementing joint projects and programs," he said.
Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, "personally studied the work of the International Coordination HQ when an anti-drug operation called Canal was held in the CSTO framework," Bordyuzha added.