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Russia's drug czar says U.S. and NATO anti-narcotics actions in Afghanistan are woefully insufficient and is calling for joint U.S.-Russian action against the Afghan heroin flooding into the former Soviet Union.
Viktor Ivanov says he urged the U.S. administration during a trip to Washington to spray herbicides from the air to eradicate opium fields in Afghanistan.
President Barack Obama's administration has abandoned the Bush-era policy of large-scale drug eradication in Afghanistan, fearing it would boost support for the Taliban. The U.S. instead has focused on encouraging alternative crops.
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