Kazakhstan for organising SCO Anti-Drug Centre.

ASTANA, June 14 (Itar-Tass) - Kazakhstan intends to initiate to
leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation /SCO/ organising a
permanent structure for fighting illegal turnover of drugs - an Anti-Drug
Centre, Kazakhstan's Prosecutor General Askhat Daulbayev told the
Kazakhstanskaya Pravda newspaper in an interview.
The new structure should coordinate law enforcement authorities and
special services of the SCO member-countries in fighting turnover of
drugs. Besides, the Anti-Drug Centre should work out special projects.
In order to raise effectiveness of the joint work, Kazakhstan's
prosecutor general suggests establishing an interstate investigation and
task force to fight drug trafficking. Representatives of law enforcement
authorities of the SCO member-countries should unite in working groups to
analyse and forecast situation in bordering territories, to present
suggestions on joint organisational and practical activities.
"We believe it necessary to organise a two-level mechanism of solving
the task in the framework of the agreement between the SCO
member-countries on cooperation in fighting illegal turnover of drugs,"
Daulbayev said. "In addition to the existing upper level, the council, we
should have authorities of the second level - working groups of experts
for tighter and more productive cooperation between prosecutors."
"This mechanism may become an effective architecture of cooperation
and coordination of the SCO's anti-drug activities," he added.
The prosecutor general mentioned in the interview that it is necessary
to organise a system of international inspections and observes to control
production of drug-containing plants in Central Asia, like the OSCE and
the UN have a permanent monitoring of the situation in the region.