Russia and The U.s. Will Continue to Cooperate in Combating Drug Trafficking in Afghanistan

The U.S. and Russia continue to cooperate in combating drug trafficking and terrorism in Afghanistan, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

Lavrov held a bilateral meeting in Hanoi with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the fields of the East Asia Summit and ASEAN activities.

“We expressed satisfaction at the conduct of successful joint operations in Afghanistan to combat drug trafficking and noted that this is an example that deserves imitation, and agreed to continue in the same spirit in the fight against drugs and terrorism, as well as in the exchange information to obtain accurate information that effectively prevent these threats, “-” Lavrov said.

On Friday the head of the Federal Drug Control Service of the Russian Federation Viktor Ivanov told journalists in Moscow that the Russian security services and the U.S. for the first time in the history of Afghanistan, held in a joint operation to destroy the four drug laboratories (three laboratories produced heroin, one – morphine). The total amount of damage caused by drug dealers, according to preliminary data, over a billion dollars. The operation was performed a few kilometers from the border with Pakistan. The operation was attended Federal Drug Control Service, the Interior Ministry of Afghanistan and American special forces were involved nine helicopters of the coalition forces. According to Ivanov, destroyed by heroin would be enough for 200 million doses .