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Analysis: Balkans crack down on smugglers -- The Washington Times 

Interior ministers from Albania, Italy, Greece, Slovenia, Croatia, and Serbia and Montenegro signed an agreement to fight against terrorism and organized crime. Finance ministers also signed an agreement to fight regional cigarette smuggling.

"Seven Adriatic and Ionian countries agreed to coordinate police operations to prevent illegal trafficking across the region to Italy and other Western European countries," Avni Jasharllari, a chief Albanian anti-trafficking police official, told United Press International Sunday.

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