UN GIVES 6 MLN DOLLARS TO TAJIKISTAN FOR ANTI-DRUG MEASURES.

DUSHANBE, April 18 (Itar-Tass) - The United Nations fully supports
the Tajik measures against the illicit drug trafficking and allocates
6.4 million dollars to the republic for that purpose, U.N.
Undersecretary-General, Executive Director of the U.N. Drug Control
Program Pino Arlacchi told correspondents on Sunday after meeting
Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov.

He hopes that the Central Asian republic will have a drug control
institution.

The United Nations and Tajikistan signed a program of the border
control over the narcotic drug trafficking on Sunday. The program will
pool efforts of the regional countries against the evil and hamper the
drug shipment from Afghanistan to Tajikistan, Arlacchi said.