By IRNA
Tehran : United Nations representative to Afghanistan Tom Koenings said on Saturday that Iran has undertaken constructive role in Afghanistan.
In a meeting with Commander of the Islamic Republic of Iran Police (IRIP) Brigadier General Ismail Moqaddam, Koenings said that Iran has played an effective role in maintaining tranquility of Afghanistan and that only the US is denying Iran’s positive role in Afghanistan.
He said that it is normal that two nations may have dispute on political field, but, they must cooperate in the international campaign against drug trafficking.
Koenings said that Iran, Pakistan, China, Russia and India are the main countries in the region which should be included in the category of 24 states known as effective partners in the international campaign against drug trafficking.
He said that Iran has effective and practical experience in the campaign against drug trafficking.
For his part, Moqaddam said that Iran has doubled its police force in its eastern borders and intensified campaign against illicit drugs being shipped to Europe.
Iranian police commander said that some 400 tons of illicit drugs have been seized from traffickers since the beginning of Iranian year (March 2007) and predicted that the amount of seizure may reach 800 tons.
Moqaddam said that the amount confiscated may seem large, but, it is little compared with the the large amount of poppy cultivation in Afghanistan.