DUSHANBE, December 21, Asia-Plus  -- The Coordination Council for preventing drug abuse held a meeting in Dushanbe at the end of last week to discuss a new counternarcotics program that was adopted in early December, press service f the Tajik Drug Control Agency (DCA) said.

Avaz Yuldoshev, a spokesman for the Tajik counternarcotics agency, said that the meeting participants included representatives from relevant bodies such as the ministries of health, labor, education, culture, and justice, as well as the youth committee and representatives from the Tajik Branch of Open Society Institute/Assistance Foundation (OSI/AF) and local office of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), etc.  

Participants at the meeting reported on the results of work carried out this year and considered the new counternarcotics program designed to enhance efforts to combat drug smuggling and to bolster drug-interdiction activities along the Tajik-Afghan border. 

The program includes a package of preventive measures capable of unifying state efforts and combining resources to combat drug trafficking over a five-year period (2008-2012).