BRUSSELS, November 30 (RIA Novosti) - Russia and NATO are preparing a pilot cooperation project to assist Afghanistan in training anti-drug specialists, a NATO official said Wednesday.
According to the official, the Russia-NATO Council will discuss this cooperation project at its meeting of foreign ministers in Brussels on December 8.
The NATO official also said the alliance's International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan (ISAF) would now inform national and local Afghan authorities of opium plantations on detection, instead of destroying them.
However, the alliance is prepared to use its own aircraft to destroy drug-growing plantations.
