Chinese and Russian officials are meeting in Dalian, a coastal city in northeast China's Liaoning Province, to discuss cooperation on drugs control, according to China's Ministry of Public Security (MPS).

 

At the meeting, which began Wednesday and will end Friday, officials from Chinese and Russian drugs-control authorities shared their experience and discussed ways to curb the drug flow from Afghanistan.

 

They also discussed cooperation on law enforcement in border areas, exchanges of information, control of chemicals for drugs manufacturing, and prevention of AIDS.

 

The two sides agreed to further exchanges of information, cooperation on law enforcement, and a crack-down on cross-border drugs-related crime.

 

The Sino-Russian Conference on Drugs-Control Cooperation was a step toward implementing the consensus between the two governments, which was reached in July when Zhou Yongkang, China's Minister of Public Security and chairman of the National Drug Control Committee, visited Russia.

 

In 2004, China and Russia signed an agreement on joint action to combat drugs smuggling.

 

(Xinhua News Agency September 22, 2006)