Peru and Russia agreed to strengthen bilateral counter-narcotics efforts between the two countries. The agreement was signed by Victor Ivanov, the Director of Russia's Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN) and by Carmen Masias, the head of Peru's National Commission for Development and Life Without Drugs (DEVIDA). As part of the accord, Russian officials will help train members of the Anti-Drug Directorate of Peru's National Police, as well as exchange technology to help Peru secure roads and waterways used by narcotics traffickers.          "Legalization is not affecting the human measures of drug production. It is creating a social base for narcotics producers and narcotics consumers, which at the moment are considered the great slaves of the century. Their human potential is being infinitely consumed by the global narcotics mafias," Ivanov said.
Russian officials believe that narcotics trafficking from Peru to Russia is growing. In March of 2012, for example, Peruvian police detained four Russian nationals attempting to smuggle cocaine through Lima's Jorge Chavez International Airport.
Ivanov said that a previous meeting with Peruvian officials led to the interception of a cocaine shipment that was headed from Peru to Russia through Cuba.