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Wednesday, 03 November 2021 11:44

About the meeting of the Director of CARICC R. Miralizoda with the Ambassador of Japan to Kazakhstan

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November 2, 2021 in the city of Nur-Sultan, a meeting was held between the Director of CARICC, Major General of Militia Miralizoda Rustam Aziz with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Kazakhstan, Mr. Jun Yamada.

Head of the UNODC Almaty Office, Mr. Naweed Riaz, and the Adviser / Head of the CARICC Organizational Unit, Ms. Asel Rakhimova also attended the meeting.

During the negotiations, the parties exchanged views on the state and prospects of international cooperation against the background of the evolving situation in Afghanistan, discussed issues of joint interaction within the framework of UN anti-drug projects funded by the Japanese side.

The director of CARICC informed about the activities of the Center, which is a permanent regional intergovernmental body to assist in the organization and conduct of joint international operations to combat drug trafficking. He said that with the onset of the crisis in Afghanistan, the Center focused its efforts on monitoring the drug situation in this country to analyze and prepare an objective assessment of the threat of drug trafficking, study and identify financial flows of transnational organized crime from drug trafficking and financing through terrorism.

Mr. R. Miralizoda thanked the Japanese side for the support provided to CARICC and UNODC projects and expressed readiness to intensify cooperation in the implementation of joint anti-drug projects.

Ambassador Jun Yamada expressed the commitment of the Japanese side to expanding financial and technical assistance to Afghanistan and the Central Asian region through the prism of international organizations, including projects implemented under the auspices of the UN.

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