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Sergei Lavrov is outraged over the U.S. unwillingness to destroy all the Afghan opium. Photo from lenta.ru

Russia does not understand U.S. reluctance to destroy Afghan opium

Russian Foreign Ministry does not understand the reluctance of Washington to destroy all the poppy plantations in Afghanistan. This was stated by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who spoke at the International Forum "The Millennium Development Goals in Eastern Europe and Central Asia".
 
It is Afghanistan that supplies the international market with more than 80% of all opiates. This country heads the list of the countries that produce drugs.
 
According to Lavrov, we all need to actively fight the "Afghan drug threat", but NATO and the U.S., for some reason, refuse to destroy opium crops in the country. Why is this happening, the Russian Foreign Ministry cannot understand.
 
"We find it hard to understand why our American partners are not willing to let the International Security Assistance Forces in Afghanistan do it. Why in Colombia and other Latin American countries, the coca eradication is an absolute priority for our partners?" asks Lavrov.
 
According to the Americans, the destruction of the poppy plantations will not resolve the problem, but will only lead to difficulties in agricultural production.