Afghanistan, Sept. 17 -- The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Country Office for Afghanistan and the Counter Narcotics Police of Afghanistan (CNPA) held a groundbreaking ceremony, marking the start of constructing a Counter Narcotics Canine (K9) Center at CNPA Headquarters in Kabul Wednesday, according to UNODC press release.
General Mohammad Hashim Urtaq, Deputy Minister Counter Narcotics, Ministry of Interior; Mitsuji Suzuka, Ambassador of Japan in Afghanistan; Dmitriy A. Zhirnov, Ambassador of the Russian Federation in Afghanistan; and Mark Colhoun, UNODC Representative in Afghanistan attended the ceremony.
The government of Japan and Russian Federation provided financial and technical assistance to implement this project.
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