Moscow-Washington video conference: What to do with opium fields in Afghanistan? Viewpoint of Russia and the United States will be broadcast live on en.rian.ru on June 3 at 5:00 p.m. Moscow time (11.00 GMT)
Moscow-Washington video conference: What to do with opium fields in Afghanistan? Viewpoint of Russia and the United States will be broadcast live on RIAN.RU ahead of the international forum, Afghan Drug Production is a Challenge to the International Community, which will be held in Moscow on June 9-10, 2010.
During the event, experts will discuss the following issues: finding joint methods of resolving the problem of Afghan drug production and trafficking by the international community; finding a compromise on the issue of eradicating poppy plantations in Afghanistan.
Participants in Moscow: Yuri Krupnov, chairman of the Monitoring Council of the Institute for Demography, Migration and Regional Development; Omar Nessar, head of the Center for Modern Afghanistan Studies (CMAS).
Participants in Washington: Caroline Wadhams, director for South Asia Security Studies at American Progress; Yossef Bodansky, director of research for the International Strategic Studies Association.
MOSCOW, June 2 (RIA Novosti)
