From: Justin Burke (JBurke@sorosny.org)
Date: Fri May 26 2000 - 11:19:12 EDT
TAJIKISTAN DENIES DIPLOMATS INVOLVED IN KAZAKH DRUGS
SMUGGLING
Tajik Foreign Ministry official Igor Sattarov told
journalists in Dushanbe on 25 May that employees of
Tajikistan's Almaty embassy are not involved in drug-
smuggling, Reuters reported. He blamed the recent discovery
by Kazakh National Security Committee officials of almost 100
kilograms of heroin on the Tajik trade representative in
Kazakhstan and a former driver for the Tajik embassy there,
neither of whom has diplomatic immunity. LF
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