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Afghanistan Set To Launch New Drug War Strategy

February 01, 2006

An opium seizure in Afghanistan in May 2005 (AFP)

An opium seizure in Afghanistan in May 2005 (AFP)

1 February 2006 -- Afghanistan's Counternarcotics Ministry today said that a new antidrug strategy is to be implemented in the country.


The ministry released a statement saying that the strategy was prepared by the Afghan government and the UN's Office on Drugs and Crime.


Habibullah Qaderi, the Afghan minister for counternarcotics, says the new strategy is aimed at curbing the cultivation, production, trafficking, and consumption of illegal drugs with a view to their complete eradication.


(dpa)

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