DUSHANBE, October 19, 2012, Asia-Plus  -- Visiting United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Regional Representative for Central Asia, Alekasndr Sychev, yesterday got acquainted with activities of the Drug Control Agency (DCA) under the President of Tajikistan.

Prospects of further expansion of cooperation between UNODC and Tajik counternarcotics agency were a major topic of his meeting with Tajik drug control chief Rustam Nazarov.

DCA director Rustam Nazarov reportedly informed Sychev of interaction between the country’s law enforcement agencies and their colleagues from neighboring countries in combating drug trafficking.

He also briefed on the current drug situation in Tajikistan, Afghanistan and the Central Asian region as a whole.      

Both sides expressed satisfaction with the state of cooperation between Tajikistan and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in combating drug trafficking and addressing other challenges and threats to modern society, the DCA press center said.

Sychev reportedly highly appraised achievements of the Tajik counternarcotics agency in the fight against the drug trafficking and made special mention of DCA’s activity in preventing smuggling narcotics into the country.

The UNODC regional representative for Central Asia arrived on a two-day working visit in Dushanbe yesterday.

UNODC presence in Central Asia began 1993 with the establishment of the UNODC Regional Office for Central Asia in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.  Today there are Program Offices in all five Central Asian States.