On the 27th of January 2017, CARICC leadership hosted a meeting with Mr. Katsunori SATO, Security Officer, Head of Consular Section, Embassy of Japan in the Republic of Kazakhstan. During the meeting participants discussed the opportunties of further development of cooperation among CARICC and Japan in the fight against drugs. Japan contribution to the Center’s development has been noted (in 2016, Japan was one of the two key donor organizations); the parties expressed their wish to witness in the future a strong relationship between CARICC and Japanese counter-narcotics agencies, including as part of the Dialogue “Central Asia plus Japan”. The parties also discussed the possibility of organizing meetings with representatives of the competent Japanese authorities engaged in the fight against drugs, and a meeting with A. Shayakhmetov, Deputy Director of CARICC, during his upcoming trip to Japan to attend the Asia-Pacific Conference on the operational fight against drugs (ADEC- 22).

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