Kazakhstan to invest $50 mln into Afghanistan’s education program

MOSCOW. October 28. KAZINFORM Kazakhstan will inject 50 million dollars into Afghanistan's educational program, which "will help to narrow down a social base for terrorist groups and drug mafia", Kazakh diplomat Zautbek Turisbekov told the ninth meeting of Russia's Neighbouring Countries Ambassadors' Club on Tuesday.

Turisbekov briefed the forum's delegates "on the efforts taken by the Central Asian republic in the fight against international drug business, this issue becomes very pressing following the creation of the Customs Union between Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus."

The ambassador highlighted the role of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization "as an important platform for dialogues to boost cooperation of the member-states in the fight against international drug business."

Kazakhstan "proposed to adopt at the jubilee summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in June 2011 a SCO strategy to counteract drug trafficking that is being drafted now," he said addressing to the head of the Russian federal drugs control service, Viktor Ivanov, Kazinform refers to ITAR-TASS.

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