Starts off by pointing out recent large seizures of heroin/ morphine. We have continued to successfully reduce illicit crop cultivation. Poverty and unemployed which continues to aid the work of the drug traffickers. We need alternative livelihood options for poor farmers. With help from the US and UK, we have been implementing a number of …
Afghanistan
Round Table A: Afghanistan
Shared Responsibility is again emphasised, illicit drugs are not a problem limited to one individual country. They agree that there is cultivation in Afghanistan, but the problem is multi-dimensional. There are many aspects, including demand, which is high within in the region with 9 million addicts in the region consuming drugs produced in Afghanistan. However …
plenary Day 1: Statement from Afghanistan
Our evidence shows that there is a direct link between poppy cultivation and armed insurgent movements in Afghanistan. There is a lot of development assistance by countries, including the US, provided to Afghanistan. These include rule of law, food, alternative livelihood and social programmes, which have been designed and implemented with efforts to protect local …
CND Day 4 – Plenary: Afghanistan
Afghanistan no precursor chemicals made in Afghanistan. Farmers only get 3% of this income. Arrests foccussed on low level people. Thanking the international community in the construction of Afghanistan.
CND Day 1 – Plenary statement of Deputy Interior Minister for Countering Narcotics in Afghanistan:
Opium cultivation has decreased by 26%. There is a need to consolidate poppy free communities. Alternative livelihood programmes have also made some difference. Casualties have been afflicted during drug controlling activities. Afghan courts convicted 427 people from drug trafficking, and acquitted 59, and over 5,500 people were treated in drug treatment centres, but more remains …
Committee of the Whole – Resolution on Strengthening the Law Enforcement Capacity of the Main Transit States Neighbouring Afghanistan
The Second Resolution considered by the Committee of the Whole at CND this morning was the draft resolution submitted by the Islamic Republic of Iran on ‘strengthening the law enforcement capacity of the main transit states neighbouring Afghanistan, based on the principle of shared responsibility’. The resolution was a triangular initiative of the Islamic Republic …