|
|
 |
AFGHANISTAN DAILY DIGEST
|
|
| Home > Daily News > Afghanistan |
|
From: Ina Iankulova (iiankulova@sorosny.org)
Date: Thu Apr 17 2003 - 11:53:00 EDT
UN ISSUES WARNING ON AFGHAN NARCOTICS RESURGENCE
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Executive Director Antonio Mario Costa said on 16 April that a major international effort is required to prevent a resurgence of the narcotics trade in Afghanistan, the "Financial Times" reported on 17 April. Costa argued for a more vigorous pursuit of a strategy employing interdiction and crop substitution. "Afghanistan remains an international problem," he said, "the efforts of the international community have yet to have an impact on provincial governors and warlords who are part of the dynamics of opium cultivation." According to the UN's Afghanistan Opium Survey that was released on October 2002, Afghanistan could produce 3,400 tons of opium this year. Afghan Transitional Administration Chairman Hamid Karzai's administration banned poppy cultivation in January 2002. BS
|
|
|
|
|
