In the past year, Laos has tackled drugs issues with important changes. We have amended the drug law. We have carried out drug education in different ways to create awareness in society. Currently, we assiduously help former opium poppy farmers with sustainable livelihoods. We cooperate with China to carry out substitution projects. UNODC and other …
High Level Segments
High level segment – Switzerland statement
Patterns of drug use are changing and responses are limited. Switzerland is left feeling that some issues might have had more attention. We are concerned that persons who are committed drug crimes are being executed. Capital punishment has no place in the modern world. We are also concerned about forced detention, forced labour and contravene …
High Level Segment – Guatemalan statement
Guatemala has openly proclaimed to need for reforms to the international drug policy. There are great consequences as a trafficking country. There are common and shared responsibilities as well as individual ones. The former Guatemalan President proposed steps to enshrine these. There are high levels of violence that come from trafficking. Need an approach linked …
High Level Segment – Statement by Iran
I thank UNODC ED for organising the meeting. I appreciate representatives of other countries for their accuracy and patience. The outcomes of this meeting and eventual adoption of the statement play a considerable role in synergy of policies and goals in drugs to alleviate the pain of people who have fallen victim of narcotic drugs …
High level segment – Minister for Children from Sweden
Sweden fully associates itself with the statement made by EU. Sweden worried about where drug policy is going and the trend to liberalise. Says some governments are leaving the path that all governments decided to go down in 2009. She asks what has changed since 2009 to cause this change. The main goal of the …
Supply Reduction Roundtable Part 2
Algeria. Cannabis tons seized. Crime is becoming more transnational in nature. Measures taken by Algeria. Awareness building and legislation. Capacity building needed for developing countries. Indonesia. Sea, air and land protection needed from drug trafficking syndicates. Dismantling and detecting clandestine laboratories. Consistent drug law enforcement exercise in order to??? (Very hard to understand this, sorry) …