TRIESTE, Italy, June 27 (UPI) -- The United States will shift its policies in Afghanistan away from poppy eradication to legal crop development, a top U.S. envoy said Saturday.
Speaking at an international conference in Trieste, Italy, Richard Holbrooke, U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, confirmed the United States would stop spending hundreds of millions of dollars on ineffective efforts to eradicate poppy cultivation in Afghanistan, Financial Times reported.