Field Reports
WHO IS THE NEW DIRECTOR OF THE TAJIK DRUG CONTROL AGENCY?
By Maral Madi (3/24/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Rustam Nazarov, the ex-director of DCA, was appointed first Deputy of the DCA. Mirzoyev was rather surprised by his dismissal. While assuring he was not going “to take up arms”, he argued that his dismissal was the result of intrigues by people surrounding Rakhmonov.CASPIAN COUNTRIES DETERMINE CASPIAN SEA LEGAL STATUS
By Gulnara Ismailova (3/24/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The deputy ministers of foreign affairs of Azerbaijan (Khalaf Khalafov), Iran (Mehdi Safari), Kazakhstan (Ravil Cherdabayev), Russia (Viktor Kalyuzhny) and Turkmenistan (Hoshgeldi Babayev) participated in the meeting. The two-day meeting resulted only in insignificant progress.The SWG was established during the first meeting of the five heads of the Caspian littoral countries in Ashghabad on April 24, 2002.
FORMER DRUG USER SPEAKS OUT ON THE DRUG SITUATION IN KYRGYZSTAN
By Aziz Soltobaev (3/24/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
“I was looking at people – they were unhappy, too serious. Some of my friends became drug users. So I tried to avoid them, not to contact.DRUG ADDICTION IN KYRGYZSTAN REACHED EPIDEMIC EDGE
By Aziz Soltobaev (3/10/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
UNODC experts claim that 80,000-100,000 drug users could exist in Kyrgyzstan – a country with a population of five million persons. It seems to now have reached the edge of an epidemic development.The Republican Center for Narcology (RCN) represents a Ministry of Health branch responsible for revealing, registering and assisting drug users.
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