September 23, 2003 - 19:42 AMT
CIS COUNTRIES AGREED TO JOINTLY STRUGGLE AGAINST TRAFFICKING
The sitting of the CIS Council of Ministers of Internal Affairs (CMIA) in Dushanbe finished with the signing of an agreement on "Counteraction to Human Trafficking" last evening. As reported by "Novosti" Russian agency, the ministers also considered issues on a subdivision on struggle against drug trafficking under the CMIA Bureau on Coordination of Struggle against Organized Crime and an operative group for that purpose in Central Asia.