Brussels, 20/09/2005 (Agence Europe) - Antonio Maria Costa, the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), presented a report to the European Commission on 16 September on the situation of opium trafficking and production in Afghanistan in 2005. Compared to 2004, the surface area of land devoted to opium poppy growing fell throughout the country by 21% on average, and plummeted spectacularly in the province of Nangarhar (-96%), which had hitherto been one of...