DUSHANBE, October 25, 2012, Asia-Plus -- The Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO)’s anti-drug strategy for 2013-2017 has been considered in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek.

The 12th meeting of the CSTO Coordinating Council of the Heads of Competent Bodies on Countering Illegal Drug Trafficking (KSOPN) took place in Bishkek on October 25.  

Tajikistan was represented by Lieutenant-General Rustam Nazarov, Director of the Drug Control Agency (DCA) under the President of Tajikistan, at the meeting.  

According to the DCA press center, the meeting participants reviewed 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 and the Organization’s anti-drug strategy were also among major topics of the meeting.

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

The meeting participants also discussed 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.