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Article: CSTO rapid reaction forces will fight drug trafficking: Medvedev
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- June 10, 2009
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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 ...