Anti-drug agencies of CSTO members to sum up work in Yerevan

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MOSCOW, July 6 (Itar-Tass) - The Coordination Council of the heads of
competent agencies on countering illicit drug trafficking of member states
of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) will sum up the
results of joint work in Yerevan.
Russian head of the Federal Drug Control Service Viktor Ivanov
delivered a report on the results of the anti-drug operation "Canal-West",
Itar-Tass learnt from CSTO press secretary Vladimir Zainetdinov.
According to the press secretary, the meeting will be also attended by
CSTO secretary-general Nikolai Bordyuzha and secretary of the National
Security Council of the Armenian Republic Artur Bagdasaryan.
The Russian Federal Drug Control Service told Itar-Tass that
participants will discuss at the meeting prospects for developing the
Coordination Council and the use of special forces and means of the CSTO
Collective Rapid Response Forces in anti-drug measures as well as in
struggle against trans-national crime.
"Illicit drug trafficking remains now a very pressing problem for CSTO
member states: Trans-national drug crime increasingly joins hands with
terrorist and extremist structures," the press secretary quoted words by
Bordyuzha before his departure for Yerevan.
Under these conditions, the Coordination Council should boost efforts
of law enforcement structures of CSTO member states to counter illicit
drug trafficking and struggle against trans-border drug business.
Besides, head of the Russian drug control agency will have a meeting
with Armenian President Serge Sargsyan.