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MOSCOW. (Pyotr Goncharov for RIA Novosti)...
an unexpected emphasis on the Afghan drugs. The statement is no declaration, but a program of action that works: both countries are set to pursue further the anti-narcotic project under the aegis of the Russia-NATO Council.This means that it is the first time that the United States has agreed with Moscow, - which had repeatedly raised the issue of narcotics in Afghanistan, and always in the context of the U.S. military presence there. What indeed is the United States doing there if opium poppy is grown freely under its very nose?
The concession is substantive. In its day, Donald Rumsfeld, former U.S. secretary of defense, had the following attitude to the problem: if Afghan opium growers are financed by Russia and Europe (through which it transits), let them fight it. But times change, and it appears that without Russia the Afghan issue is not so simple to resolve, neither in general nor in regard to opium.