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Article: West cuts funding for U.N. program that fights opium.(World)(Afghanistan)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- September 30, 2000
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Governments of the West have cut funding for a successful U.N. project to curb opium production in Afghanistan just weeks after the hard-line Taleban regime has complied with international demands to outlaw poppy cultivation.
The move signals a growing reluctance in the United States and Western Europe to fund long-term development projects in Afghanistan while the Taleban are in power and enforcing their brutally strict Islamic laws.
Under a U.N. Drug Control Program (UNDCP) project, poppy farmers were given wheat as an alternative crop together with help in irrigation and marketing. In three of the four targeted districts, the ...