MOSCOW. July 24 (Interfax-AVN) - Opium poppy planting in Afghanistan has increased 2.5 times lately, Secretary General of the Collective Security Council Nikolai Bordyuzha said on Thursday.
"Poppy planting in Afghanistan has increased 2.5 times. According to law-enforcement agencies, non a single heroin- producing laboratory has been destroyed in the framework of the anti-terrorist operation," Bordyuzha told reporters.
Drug trafficking remains the major problem of all the former Soviet republics, he said. Drugs are delivered to the CIS through both Tajik-Afghan and Turkmen-Afghan borders, he stressed.
"It makes sense to speak about the Turkmen-Afghan border, not the Tajik-Afghan border alone. We do not have general information on what is going on at this border section, we are unaware how they fight drugs there," Bordyuzha said. According to him, the Collective Security Council is working to solve these problems.
"I believe that I will be able to tell you about the steps taken to solve these problems very soon, in late autumn," the secretary general noted. He said that the Belarussian law- enforcement agencies have also registered an increase in drug inflow from Poland.
The Collective Security Treaty Organization brings together Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan.