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�Interpol of CIS�: one more program adopted

ALMATY, June 7

(KazAAG)

A two-day session of Internal Ministers of CIS has been held in Astana. The main result of the session was the adoption of the international program for joint measures to suppress the crime rate by the year 2003.

During the session, projects for agreements in the fields of cooperation against illegal drug trafficking were discussed.

The participants also paid attention to the issues of coordination of activities concerning the fight against the organized crime as well as the activity of �Interpol of CIS�.

The latter captured 390 organized criminal groups last year and has already revealed 388 organized groups during the first 5 months of the current year. The next session will take place in Kiev in September, - said Vladimir Rushailo, the Russian Internal Affairs Minister.

G8 foreign ministers meet fter breakdown in Serb pull-out talks

BONN, June 7 (AFP)

G8 foreign ministers met here Monday to try to salvage the Kosovo peace process and finalize a UN resolution after NATO and Yugoslavia failed to reach agreement on a troop withdrawal from the province.

NATO�s bombing of Yugoslavia was resumed with renewed intensity Monday after the breakdown of talks on a withdrawal of Yugoslav troop and Serb police units from Kosovo.

US state department spokesman James Rubin said the goal of the G8 meeting was �to work expeditiously so we can present the draft (of a resolution on Kosovo) to the Security Council.�

Commenting on Russian claims that the west is imposing last-minute changes, Rubin said: �NATO�s conditions remain the same. They are unchanging.�