Kazakhstan to invest $50 mln into Afghanistan`s education program.

MOSCOW, October 27 (Itar-Tass) - Kazakhstan will inject 50 million
dollars into Afghanistan's educational program, which "will help to narrow
down a social base for terrorist groups and drug mafia", Kazakh diplomat
Zautbek Turisbekov told the ninth meeting of Russia's Neighbouring
Countries Ambassadors' Club on Tuesday.
Turisbekov briefed the forum's delegates "on the efforts taken by the
Central Asian republic in the fight against international drug business,
this issue becomes very pressing following the creation of the Customs
Union between Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus."
The ambassador highlighted the role of the Shanghai Cooperation
Organization "as an important platform for dialogues to boost cooperation
of the member-states in the fight against international drug business."
Kazakhstan "proposed to adopt at the jubilee summit of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization in June 2011 a SCO strategy to counteract drug
trafficking that is being drafted now," he said addressing to the head of
the Russian federal drugs control service, Viktor Ivanov.

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