Article: CSTO rapid reaction forces will fight drug trafficking: Medvedev

CSTO rapid reaction forces will fight drug trafficking: Medvedev

MOSCOW, June 10 (Xinhua) -- The duties of the Collective Security Treaty Organization's rapid reaction forces will include operations against cross-border drug trafficking, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Wednesday.

"Units of this kind should carry out tasks of cutting short drug trafficking channels and take part in operations to destroy drug dealing structures," the Interfax news agency quoted Medvedev as saying during a meeting with Viktor Ivanov, head of the Russian Federal Drug Control Service.

Ivanov briefed Medvedev on Russia's cooperation with other ...

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