DUSHANBE , February 9, Asia-Plus – A center is to be set up in Kazakhstan for countering drugs trafficking in the region, Asia-Plus has learned from Fayzullo Adbulloyev, deputy director of Tajikistan ’s Drug Control Agency.  

The Asia-Plus interlocutor said the decision to set up the Central Asian Center on the Fight against Drugs in Astana , Kazakhstan ''s capital, had been made by the signatories to a regional memorandum on cooperation in countering the production, trade, and abuse of drugs.

The memorandum brings together five Central Asian former soviet republics ( Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , Tajikistan , Turkmenistan , and Uzbekistan ), as well as Russia , Azerbaijan , and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.