MOSCOW. Dec 25 (Interfax-AVN) - Chiefs of drug control agencies of the Collective Security Treaty Organization member nations started their first meeting in Moscow on Thursday.
The meeting is hosted by the headquarters of the Russian State Committee on Drug and Psychotropic Substances Turnover. Its goal is to sum up results of the Canal 2003 preventive and law- enforcement operation and to set up a permanent body for coordination of anti-drug efforts of law-enforcement agencies of the organization's member nations.
Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Nikolai Bordyuzha and Chairman of the Russian State Drug Control Committee Viktor Cherkesov.
"Members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization coordinate and pool efforts in combating international terrorism and extremist, illegal turnover of drug and psychotropic substances and arms, organized trans-border crime, illegal migration and other threats," Bordyuzha said.
He classified the situation in the organization's area of responsibility was complicated as far as drug business was concerned.
Participants in the meeting will consider results of the Canal 2003 operation, which was conducted on the territory of the organization's member nations in spring this year and will outline the measures aimed at countering the drug threat in the organization's area of responsibility.
The meeting is attended by representatives of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Russia.