Opium could relieve Kyrgyz debt


	Opium could relieve Kyrgyz debt

michellezm

5-17-2007 2:02 PM

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</P><P>The plan was put forward by Azimbek Beknazarov, firebrand leader of the Asaba National Renewal Party.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2081207,00.html">In Afghanistan in 2007 they've announced almost officially that they're increasing the sowing of poppies. We need to do the same and allow opium cultivation just for a couple of years," Beknazarov, a former prosecutor general, told reporters.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2081207,00.html">After that, all the international organisations will be alarmed and will themselves offer to cover our country's debts."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2081207,00.html"><P>Beknazarov pointed out that Kyrgyzstan had a tradition of opium production, including in 
Soviet times, when production of the raw product reached 16% of the world total in the 1950s before authorities put a stop to it in 1973. 
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