Drug threat from Afghanistan growing, opium poppy cultivation fields break record sizes
AKIPRESS.COM - Poppy cultivation in Afghanistan in 2017 increased by 87%, which is a record level of 9,000 metric tons, Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, said during the third meeting of the steering committee of the UNODC program for Central Asian countries for 2015-2019 in Bishkek...