From: Justin Burke (JBurke@sorosny.org)
Date: Fri Oct 20 2000 - 11:14:49 EDT
Uzbek president discusses fight against drugs with UNDCP head
Text of report by Uzbek TV on 19th October
President Islam Karimov of Uzbekistan received the deputy UN
secretary-general, UNDCP Chairman Pino Arlacchi, this afternoon. Our head
of state thanked Mr Pino Arlacchi for his visit to Uzbekistan and stressed
that the international conference which opened in Tashkent today under UN
auspices was apposite. He said that the Uzbek government supported a
widescale fight against drug addiction, which had become the problem of the
millenium.
The deputy UN secretary-general, Pino Arlacchi, also highly praised the
Uzbek government's policy in this direction. Views were exchanged at the
meeting on the situation in the region and on the joint fight against
drugs.
[Video shows reception and talks]
Source: Uzbek Television second channel, Tashkent, in Uzbek 1400 gmt 19 Oct
00
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