Kazakh president urges OIC states to pool anti-drug efforts.

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ASTANA, June 28 (Itar-Tass) - Kazakhstan's President Nursultan
Nazarbayev has called on member countries of the Organization of the
Islamic Conference (OIC) to pool efforts in the fight against drug
trafficking.
The unstable situation in Afghanistan gives rise to serious concern,
he said at the 38th session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers, which
opened here on Tuesday.
He admitted that the organization makes poor use of "its possibilities
to fight the drug industry in order to help the Afghan people."
"Over the past 10 years, production of Afghan heroin and drug
trafficking from that country has increased ten-fold, while we are not
using our possibilities in the to fight the drug industry in order to help
the Afghan people," he stressed.
"Along with more active effort on the part of the organization's envoy
in Afghanistan I suggest these issues should be tackled by a special
working group to be set up with the OIC to help that country," Nazarbayev
voiced an initiative.
"We must take efforts to enhance the activity and the institutional
role of our organization in order to pool the efforts of all Moslem states
in the face of global challenges," he said.