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AND TO ROUTINE LIBREVILLE, GUATEMALA CITY, NUKU' ALOFA

AND TO ROUTINE VICTORIA

AND TO SAVING MANAGUA, ADEN, ANGUILLA, ASCENSION, TEHRAN AND TO SAVING DAMASCUS, CASTRIES, GRAND CAYMAN, GRAND TURK AND TO SAVING SAINT VINCENT, MONTSERRAT, GRENADA, ST HELENA

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AND TO SAVING ANTIGUA, TARAWA, TORTOLA, TRIPOLI, TRISTAN DA CUNHA AND TO SAVING ULAN BATOR, UKDEL MBFR

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DRUG ABUSE AND ILLICIT TRAFFICKING

INTRODUCTION

1. THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DRUG ABUSE AND ILLICIT

THE TRAFFICKING (ICDAIT) WAS HELD IN VIENNA FROM 17-26 JUNE. CONFERENCE ADOPTED A POLITICAL DECLARATION AND A PLAN OF ACTION, THE COMPREHENSIVE MULTIDISCIPLINARY OUTLINE (CMO), WHICH PROVIDE GUIDELINES FOR FUTURE EFFORTS OF THE UN AND INDIVIDUAL MEMBER

COUNTRIES IN THE DRUGS FIELD.

LINE TO TAKE

2. THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY SHOULD BUILD ON THE MOMENTUM OF ICDAIT, AN IMPORTANT MILESTONE IN THE INTERNATIONAL STRUGGLE TO

CONTROL DRUG MISUSE.

3. FOR OUR PART, EMPOWERED BY THE DRUG TRAFFICKING OFFENCES ACT 1986, WE SHALL PRESS AHEAD WITH CONCLUDING ARRANGEMENTS WITH OTHER COUNTRIES IN ORDER TO ENSURE THAT DRUG TRAFFICKERS WILL BE UNABLE TO AVOID CONFISCATION OF THEIR ASSETS BY TRANSFERRING

THEIR PROFITS ABROAD. WE SHALL ALSO WORK FOR THE EARLY

CONCLUSION OF THE NEW UN CONVENTION ON ILLICIT DRUG TRAFFICKING.

ADDITIONAL POINTS

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