in the russian federation continued supporting the provision of law enforcement training in counternarcotics at its national institutions to the counternarcotics police of afghanistan as part of the unodc regional programme for afghanistan and neighbouring countries that joint cooperation will be extended into and expanded to include assistance to the five countries of central asia moreover the russian federation informed the board about a number of initiatives to strengthen joint efforts to tackle the world drug problem including the international conference of the russianafrican antidrug dialogue held in banjul on july and the regional antidrug operation operation channel for the period