DRAFT COUNTRY PROFILE 1998

OF TURKMENISTAN

I.       Cultivation and Production

Cannabis and Opium.

            Over 1,000 hectares of illicit plantation of opium poppy and hemp were destroyed during the anti-drug operation “Poppy”.

Ephedra.

II.                Illicit Drug Trafficking

III.   Fight Against Illicit Drugs

1.      Law Enforcement Policy

More than 700 suspects have been detained and 200 narcotics related crimes more than last year’s total were uncovered in Mary Oblast in 1998.

2.         Drugs seized by Turkmen  law enforcement  agencies in 1998*:

            Declining seizure of opium and increased seizure of heroin (3,465 kg of opium and 60 kg of heroin seized in 1997) show a shift in drugs trafficking towards heroin

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2.  Ratification of the International Conventions

3.  Anti-Narcotics Operatins

IV. Bilateral/Multilateral International Co-operation

V.    Treatment and Rehabilitation.

VI.              Miscellaneous : Arrest and Seizure Data

            In June –July 1999 Tajik police expropriated 16 kg of heroin from an automobile travelling to Uzbekistan. These narcotics of Afghan origin were headed for Russia. In August, the law enforcement agencies of Tajikistan destroyed more than 100 kg of seized drugs.

SOURCES AND/OR BASIS OF CALCULATION:

 * "Drug Control in Central Asia" by Y.Rasumov. The Times of Central Asia, 1 April, 1999.

** "Narcotics Situation in Central Asia" by A.Zelichenko. The Times of Central Asia, 5 August, 1999.

*** As reported by the Director of the Chief Drug Business Combat Department Of Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Interior, Muhamed Bergenov. "The Times of Central Asia", 23 September 1999.

**** "Illegal Drug Situation in Central Asia" by A.Zelichenko. The Times of Central Asia, 27 May, 1999.

REFERENCES:

 1.      UN ODCCP, "Global illicit drug trends", 1999.

2.      INCB, Report 1998.

3.      "The Times of Central Asia", 1999.

4.      "Europe and Central Asia". INCSR 1999.US Government.(?)

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