US to provide Uzbekistan with equipment to fight drug trafficking
The United States will deliver the equipment, patrol boats and cars worth $6.2 million to Uzbekistan, the US embassy in Uzbekistan reported.
The deliveries will be carried out free of charge as part of an earlier signed supplement to the agreement of Uzbekistan and the US, dated Aug. 14, 2001, on assistance in the drug control and law enforcement.
The document was signed by Uzbekistan’s Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov and the US Ambassador to Uzbekistan Pamela Spratlen.
The embassy said the agreement’s supplement secures the realization of the project, funded by the US Department of Defense, as part of which, the delivery of equipment, patrol boats and cars to Uzbekistan will be carried out free of charge.
The project is aimed at assisting Uzbekistan’s law enforcement agencies in the development of a strategy for disorganizing and eliminating the large organizations that carry out illegal trafficking of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors.
The equipment and the vehicles will be handed over to the Committee for State Border Protection of the Uzbek National Security Service and the Uzbek State Customs Committee.
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