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AZERBAIJANI AUTHORS OF BROCHURE ON "DRUG TRAFFICKING" IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH CONFESS THEY HAVE NO CORROBORATING EVIDENCE
17:35 23/08/2013 " LAW
Azerbaijan National Office against drugs propaganda, acting within
the framework of the UN Development Programme (UNDP), published a
booklet entitled "Drug trafficking in Nagorno-Karabakh." However,
according to the Azerbaijani news agency "Turan", the data given
there have no references to any sources.
"Referring to unofficial data, the authors write that the produced
high quality drugs by the Nagorno-Karabakh Iran-Azerbaijan-Russia
route, as well as NK-Iran-Azerbaijan-Europe and Armenia-Georgia-Black
Sea-Europe routes are exported to European and Russian markets. By
the same time, there are no references to the sources of information,"
the agency says.
According to "Turan", the brochure states that before Nagorno Karabah
was a drug transit area, and today "according to some sources, drugs
are grown and manufactured in special laboratories there."
Responding to agency's question about providing documentary evidence
and facts, the head of the National Anti-Drug Propaganda Public
Association Mazahir Efendiyev said that "all these facts need to
be checked."
The U.S. State Department report on the control of drug trafficking was
noted that Azerbaijan is a transit country for drugs from Afghanistan,
Iran and Central Asia to Russia and Europe. The report also said that
the number of addicts has increased in Azerbaijan.
Heroin is the most popular drug in Azerbaijan, besides narcotic plants
grow there.
In September 2010, the Deputy Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan
Rustam Usubov stated that about 35% of the drugs illegally produced
in Afghanistan are carried through Azerbaijan.
According to a UN report, of "Northern Balkan Route" drug trafficking
from Afghanistan to Europe lies precisely through Azerbaijan. Drugs
freely cross Azerbaijan-Turkey-Iran route. The second, "Old Balkan
Route" lies straight through Iran to Turkey.
People engaged in the smuggling are mainly assisted by the Azerbaijani
and Kurdish population of northern Iran. The third way is through
Azerbaijan and the Caucasus which lies through the Turkmen seaport
after Turkmenbashi, in Baku. Here the drugs are easily smuggled into
Russia. Moreover, the telegram to former U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan
Anne Derse, which was published by the WikiLeaks, read that the drug
mafia in Russia is largely controlled by ethnic Azerbaijanis. Armenia,
at the same time, is not specified as a drugs transit country.
Source: Panorama.am
17:35 23/08/2013 " LAW
Azerbaijan National Office against drugs propaganda, acting within
the framework of the UN Development Programme (UNDP), published a
booklet entitled "Drug trafficking in Nagorno-Karabakh." However,
according to the Azerbaijani news agency "Turan", the data given
there have no references to any sources.
"Referring to unofficial data, the authors write that the produced
high quality drugs by the Nagorno-Karabakh Iran-Azerbaijan-Russia
route, as well as NK-Iran-Azerbaijan-Europe and Armenia-Georgia-Black
Sea-Europe routes are exported to European and Russian markets. By
the same time, there are no references to the sources of information,"
the agency says.
According to "Turan", the brochure states that before Nagorno Karabah
was a drug transit area, and today "according to some sources, drugs
are grown and manufactured in special laboratories there."
Responding to agency's question about providing documentary evidence
and facts, the head of the National Anti-Drug Propaganda Public
Association Mazahir Efendiyev said that "all these facts need to
be checked."
The U.S. State Department report on the control of drug trafficking was
noted that Azerbaijan is a transit country for drugs from Afghanistan,
Iran and Central Asia to Russia and Europe. The report also said that
the number of addicts has increased in Azerbaijan.
Heroin is the most popular drug in Azerbaijan, besides narcotic plants
grow there.
In September 2010, the Deputy Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan
Rustam Usubov stated that about 35% of the drugs illegally produced
in Afghanistan are carried through Azerbaijan.
According to a UN report, of "Northern Balkan Route" drug trafficking
from Afghanistan to Europe lies precisely through Azerbaijan. Drugs
freely cross Azerbaijan-Turkey-Iran route. The second, "Old Balkan
Route" lies straight through Iran to Turkey.
People engaged in the smuggling are mainly assisted by the Azerbaijani
and Kurdish population of northern Iran. The third way is through
Azerbaijan and the Caucasus which lies through the Turkmen seaport
after Turkmenbashi, in Baku. Here the drugs are easily smuggled into
Russia. Moreover, the telegram to former U.S. Ambassador to Azerbaijan
Anne Derse, which was published by the WikiLeaks, read that the drug
mafia in Russia is largely controlled by ethnic Azerbaijanis. Armenia,
at the same time, is not specified as a drugs transit country.
Source: Panorama.am