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Lavrov spurns US claims of Russian bounties

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KABUL for the past 20 years, the illicit drug commerce has flourished in the war-torn country, claims Russia.

On Friday, the Russia foreign minister called for investigating reports about the possible use of NATO aircraft to traffic drugs in Afghanistan.

TASS news agency quoted Sergey Lavrov as saying: "We keep on receiving reports -- that opiates have been organised from Afghanistan to other countries, including Europe, with the use of NATO military aircraft."

However, he hastened . . .

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