Smuggling of contraband from Syria should be handled firmly, Jordan’s King Abdullah II stated on Monday throughout a go to to navy models close to the border.
Jordan has turn out to be up to now three years a transit centre for Captagon trafficking from Syrian regime areas into the Arabian peninsula, and the problem has risen to the highest of the nationwide safety agendas within the kingdom, in addition to within the Gulf.
“Infiltration and smuggling makes an attempt should be handled strongly and firmly to guard our society,” the official media quoted the king as telling troops in an recognized location.
Curbing drug flows from regime areas in Syria has been a unbroken Jordanian coverage up to now two years, whereas accommodating the federal government of President Bashar Al Assad by reopening borders and resuming commerce.
An estimated $4 billion value of Captagon capsules are smuggled from areas below the management of the Syrian regime to Jordan yearly, safety officers within the area say.
However regardless of Jordan’s re-engagement with Mr Al Assad, there have been few indicators that the quantity of smuggled medicine has lowered.
The king was briefed on the most recent developments on the frontier, state tv stated.
In January drug traffickers killed two Jordanian troopers in an ambush within the space and fled to a Syrian regime space throughout the border. The navy stated that since then it killed 29 smugglers in operations on the border with Syria, with out giving particulars.
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