WASHINGTON - The U.S. and Mexico on Friday unveiled a comprehensive drug fighting strategy that promises closer cooperation on firearms trafficking,extradition of druglords and intelligence gathering.

It was released less than a month before the Clinton administration is scheduled to decide whether to renew Mexico's certification as a cooperative partner in the anti-drug war.

The strategy is aimed at reducing the $50 billion flood of illegal drugs purchased in the united States each year,much arriving across the 2,000-mile-long U.S.-Mexico border.

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