By empty (11/28/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will render technical assistance to Kyrgyz government; an agreement on it was signed at the IAEA headquarters on November 27; a REGNUM correspondent was informed at Kyrgyz foreign ministry press office. Kyrgyzstan Ambassador to the OSCE and other international organizations in Vienna Rina Prizhivoyt signed the agreement form the Kyrgyz side; the IAEA Deputy Director General, Director of Technical Cooperation Department Anna Maria Chetto – from the side of the IAEA. According to the agreement, Kyrgyzstan received possibility to start together with the IAEA realization of national projects about $2mln worth in the sphere of preservation of the environment and medicine, as well as completely to use potential of the IAEA to settle acute problems such as radioactive waste, protection of nuclear materials, treatment of oncological diseases at the sum of $2mln environmental protection.

By empty (11/28/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)

The scale of Afghanistan\'s \"opium economy\" is virtually unprecedented, a UN and World Bank report said Tuesday, warning it threatens to ruin the country\'s attempts to rebuild after years of war. Efforts to cut back Afghan opium production -- which makes up more than 90 percent of the world total -- were being hampered by corruption, with wealthy opium producers paying bribes to stop eradication, it said. The \"tightening environment\" against the trade was seeing it consolidate around \"fewer, more powerful, and politically connected actors\", with a popular Islamic money transfer system used to launder drug funds.

By empty (11/28/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)

A suicide attacker rammed a car bomb into a police vehicle in western Afghanistan, killing a policeman and wounding three civilians, officials said. The attacker drove the car into a police jeep on the outskirts of Herat city as counterterrorism police followed him suspecting he might be planning an attack, interior ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary told AFP on Tuesday. \"One police officer was martyred and one was wounded in the suicide blast,\" said Bashary.