DUSHANBE, October 25, 2012, Asia-Plus  -- Lieutenant-General Rustam Nazarov, Director of the Drug Control Agency (DCA) under the President of Tajikistan, is attending the 12th meeting of the CSTO Coordinating Council of the Heads of Competent Bodies on Countering Illegal Drug Trafficking (KSOPN) that has opened in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan today.

According to the DCA press center, the meeting participants are reviewing the results of the past year’s activities of the KSOPN and perspectives of its work for 2013.

The results of the local operation, dubbed Kanal-Vostok (Channel-East), and other operations carried out within the framework of regional anti-drug operation, Kanal (Channel), as well as the results of the CSTO anti-drug exercises are also among major topics of the meeting.  

The meeting will consider issues of interaction with the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism (EAG) on carrying out Operation Kanal.

The meeting participants will also discuss working out a draft memorandum of understanding on cooperation between the KSOPN and the CIS Bureau on Coordination of Fight against Organized Crime, the source said.