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Head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Antonio Maria Costa talks during a press conference in Kabul on August 26, 2008.
Monday, Oct. 13, 2008

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  • ANTONIO MARIA COSTA,
  • the head of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime, on huge quantities of opium that international drug cartels have stockpiled. Costa is urging the international community to find the stockpiles
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