DUHANBE, October 11, Asia-Plus -- China supports enhancement of work of the Tajik Drug Control Agency (DCA) through providing it with the state-of-the-art drug-detecting equipment for checking vehicles, the first Deputy DCA Director, Vaysiddin Azamatov remarked at a news conference in Dushanbe today.  

A total cost of the equipment that is expected to be delivered to Tajikistan next week is more than 4 million US dollars.  

“The equipment will be handed over to our country in accordance with government-to-government agreement between Tajikistan and China ,” the drug control official said.    

Speaking to journalists, the Deputy DCA Director, Bunafsha Odinayeva said that the X-ray equipment is installed on a trailer Volvo.   “ Tajikistan is still the first in Central Asia to acquire such equipment,” Odinayeva said.    

During the news conference it was noted that in January-September 2007, the counternarcotics agency has intercepted more than 915 kilograms of drugs, including 278 kilograms of heroin and 329 kilograms of raw opium.