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UkrInform: Ukraine and U.S. talk cooperation on drugs

By UkrInform.

Published April 17, 2018 at 2:26 pm

A Russian Federal Drug Control Service officer guards bags of synthetic opioid Methadone before burning them during an operation in Simferopol on December 23, 2014. Some 30 kgs of the drug, which is illegal in Russia, were burnt.

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Ukraine and the U.S. will cooperate in the fight against international drug trafficking.

This was discussed during a meeting between Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov and Acting Administrator for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) of the U. S. Department of Justice Robert W. Patterson, the press service of the Interior Ministry reported.