"We have our own sources that provide us with concrete information on the whereabouts of narcotics plantations and drug labs in Afghanistan," announced Chairman of the Kazakh Committee on National Security (CNS) Nartay Dutbayev at the meeting of the "round table" Cooperation in the fight against international terrorism and illicit trade in narcotics as a factor of national stability of Russia and Kazakhstan.
"We passed the information to our partners from various special services around the world who have capabilities to use military measures to destroy narcotics plantations and labs in Afghanistan," head of CNS emphasized. "Unfortunately, this information has never been used," he said.
According to Mr. Dutbayev, "every field commander controls several plantations receiving part of the profits on a regular basis." "Every year the number of narcotics plantations in Afghanistan increases," he stressed.
"The round table" is conducted in the framework of the Days of the Russian Federation Council (upper chamber of the Russian parliament) in the Senate of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
