Bogota Offers to Help Moscow Fight Drug War
Colombia’s foreign minister offered her government’s help Saturday fighting Russia’s growing illegal drug trade.
The state visit of Noemi Sanin Posada was the first by a Latin American foreign minister to post-Soviet Russia. At a Kremlin meeting with President Boris N. Yeltsin, she said the visit demonstrates support for Russian reforms, the Itar-Tass news agency reported.
Since the Soviet collapse in 1991, Russia has reported an increase in drug smuggling, particularly across its borders with former Soviet republics.
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