Russia, USA to prevent supply of heroin precursors to Afghanistan - Lavrov.

MOSCOW, July 7 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia and the United States agreed to
prevent the supplies of precursors used in heroin production to
Afghanistan, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told the Vesti news channel.

"The Russian and American presidents made a statement on Afghanistan.
That statement defined our common approaches to the solution of Afghan
problems, including stabilization, efficiency of local authorities, army
and security forces that will help Afghanis to be responsible for their
own future," he said.
"We put down things about which Russia has been speaking for a long
time. It is necessary to crush drug laboratories," he said.
"It is important to prevent the deliveries of precursors to
Afghanistan, because it is impossible to produce heroin without
precursors. There are no precursors in Afghanistan. They are mostly
supplied from Europe," Lavrov said.
-0-yer