Tue, Nov 21, 2006 - Page 5 News List

Blair visits troops in Afghanistan

COMMITMENT The UK has spent more than £390 million on reconstruction in the country and has said it will spend an additional £500 million by 2009

AFP , KABUL

Afghanistan produces 92 percent of the world's opium supply. Cultivation has jumped nearly 60 percent to a record 6,100 tonnes in the past year, the UN said in a September report.

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