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Zvezdaweekly.ru "Channel", leading to Eurasia without drugs
25.01.2019CSTO member states block the spread of killer potion
January 25, 2019, 06:23
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Collective Security Treaty Organizations - the framework of a common safe home.
The most important element of the common safe house framework, which the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), which unites Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan, is consistently and methodically building in Eurasia, is a system of protective measures aimed at the increasingly ominous nature of the drug threat. And as before, one of the global sources of this threat is the Afghan region, whose territory has been turned into the zone of undivided management of drug traffickers operating there with the connivance of the United States, which for 18 years has been carrying out Operation Enduring Freedom in the IRA.
Opium Klondike
According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (OTN), only for 2016-2017. world opium production increased by 65% to 10,500 tons. This is the highest mark ever recorded since the beginning of the monitoring of world opium production in the twenty-first century.
Of this volume, the “lion’s share” of opioid products - 9,000 tons - came from the Afghan provinces. Despite a slight reduction in drug production in Afghanistan in 2018, caused by drought, there are enormous stocks of opiates produced in previous years in its territory.
By not hindering the cultivation of opiates in the area of its military presence, the United States contributes to “channeling” this destructive potion in the direction of its geopolitical opponents, primarily Russia and China, thereby undermining their demographic potential and delaying resources to counter drug crime, treatment, rehabilitation and resocialization of individuals admitting non-medical drug use. Due to these circumstances and its geographic location, almost all the CSTO member states found themselves in the epicenter of the so-called “northern route”, which connected the Afghan drug market with underground markets in Russia and Central Asian countries.
Distribution routes for opiates from Afghanistan.
According to expert estimates, about 25-30% of Afghan opiates are being transferred to drug users via this channel. In addition, the drug business organizers are increasing drug traffic along the Caucasian-Black Sea branch of the “Balkan route”, which also directly affects the anti-drug security of the CSTO states.
Actualization of the anti-drug activities of the States parties to the Collective Security Treaty began from the moment this document was signed in 1992. Even then, the CSTO states agreed that the Afghan drug threat has a pronounced regional character. However, a real breakthrough in the field of practical struggle against illicit drug trafficking within the CSTO occurred only ten years later, when a package of relevant decisions was adopted at a session of the Collective Security Council (CSC) held on April 28, 2003 in Dushanbe. The organization was tasked with raising the level of foreign policy integration and expanding the areas of counteraction against international terrorism, extremism, organized transnational crime, illegal migration and drug business. The Council made a separate decision on the coordination of activities in the anti-drug sector, in accordance with which the Action Plan was developed to combat the external drug threat.
figure>At the session of the Collective Security Council (CSC), held on April 28, 2003 in Dushanbe.
On the initiative of the CSTO
Under this plan, in 2003, for the first time, a comprehensive operational and preventive operation under the code name “Channel-2003” was carried out, aimed at identifying and blocking the routes of illegal drug trafficking in the regions directly adjacent to Afghanistan. An international coordination headquarters was established to guide and manage the operation, consisting of representatives of the competent authorities of the six CSTO states, national and regional interdepartmental headquarters, operational groups of relevant ministries and departments of the CSTO member states. The competent authorities of Iran, China, Uzbekistan, Ukraine and Turkmenistan were also informed about the preparation of the operation, its main tasks, ways of solving them and the timing of the operation. The effectiveness of the operation conducted in 2003 was recognized as successful, and the United Nations International Narcotics Control Board subsequently recognized it as the largest and most effective in countering Afghan drug trafficking.
Taking into account the effectiveness of the annual coordinated activities of the CSTO member states, other countries expressed their readiness to join Channel. Including observers from Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Bulgaria, Bolivia, Venezuela, Iran, Spain, Italy, China, Colombia, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Poland, Peru, Romania, USA, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Finland , Estonia, as well as representatives of Interpol, the OSCE and the Eurasian Group on combating money laundering (EAG).
The CSTO member states organized and conducted Operation Channel.
Taking into account the obvious progress that accompanied the implementation of the Channel, the decision of the heads of the CSTO member states of September 5, 2008 of this operation, carried out annually, was given the status of a permanent CSTO anti-drug operation.
In total, from 2003 to the present, 28 stages of Operation Channel have been conducted. As a result of these activities, law enforcement agencies of the CSTO member states and observers seized 373 tons of narcotic drugs, psychotropic and potent substances, including 16.5 tons of heroin, 55.5 tons of hashish and 6.5 tons of synthetic drugs.
The fact that the Channel every year becomes an increasingly effective tool in the fight against drug epidemics, exciting the entire regions of Eurasia, show the results of the next stage of the international special anti-drug operation Channel Red Barkhan, which took place from September 10 to September 14 year on the territory of Kazakhstan. Its planning was carried out on the basis of the results of the preparatory phase, during which an analysis of the operational situation was conducted, a set of operational search measures were developed aimed at identifying and blocking the channels for smuggling narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, in particular, through the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the necessary information between interacting bodies.