Russia offers steps to fight drug production in Afghanistan.

KABUL, September 5 (Itar-Tass) - Russia offers concrete five-year
steps to fight drug production in Afghanistan, the head of the federal
drugs control service, Viktor Ivanov, told a regional anti-drug conference
that opened in Kabul on Monday.
"The conference should become the follow-up of decisions taken by the
four countries' presidents and bring us concrete results," he said. "By
taking any decisions we should proceed from the assumption that the
problem of the Afghan drug production at its root is beyond Afghanistan
and is created by orders from global transnational drug trafficking
corporations."
Ivanov called on delegates "to discuss and take a decision on Russia's
initiated plan for the elimination of Afghan drug production codenamed
Raduga-2 [Rainbow]."
"Russia believes that to implement this plan it is necessary to create
a relevant management body or agency that will in close cooperation with
the Afghan government, regional governments, the UN, the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
and the Collective Security Treaty Organization and other leading
organizations of the world in practice set up a stable system of the
Eurasian anti-drug security," he said.
"Central offices of the agency could be placed in three large cities
of Afghanistan," he said.
Ivanov called on his counterparts to initiate a public statement
through diplomatic channels on behalf of Afghanistan, Tajikistan and
Pakistan to the EU authorities on the need to speed up the adoption of a
five-year Russian-European plan for the elimination of drug production.
Moreover, the Russian delegation considers it expedient to develop by
the next quartet meeting a draft roadmap that would contain proposals for
the implementation of four-party and multilateral programs.
"Relying on the potential of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and
the Collective Security Treaty Organization it is necessary to draft an
anti-drug strategy of the Eastern Hemisphere similar to the one that is
being implemented in the Western Hemisphere," Ivanov said.