UNAMA FEATURED PHOTO: 5 March 2014
An independent monitoring body for the implementation of United Nations drug control conventions has urged Afghanistan – the world’s largest producer of opium – to translate into “concrete action and results” its national drug control strategy, which aims to make the country poppy-free in the next decade. “The drug control situation in Afghanistan will not improve unless substantial, sustainable and measurable progress is made by the Government in anti-drug trafficking, alternative development and drug demand reduction,” said the 2013 annual report of the Vienna-based International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), released in London on Tuesday. The INCB report, which provides a comprehensive survey of the drug control situation in various parts of the world, said it is “seriously concerned” that the illicit cultivation of opium poppy increased for three consecutive years since 2010, reaching record levels in 2013 with 209,000 hectares of area under opium poppy cultivation. For more: bit.ly/1gQCkVl
UN Photo / Eric Kanalstein
UNAMA FEATURED PHOTO: 5 March 2014
An independent monitoring body for the implementation of United Nations drug control conventions has urged Afghanistan – the world’s largest producer of opium – to translate into “concrete action and results” its national drug control strategy, which aims to make the country poppy-free in the next decade. “The drug control situation in Afghanistan will not improve unless substantial, sustainable and measurable progress is made by the Government in anti-drug trafficking, alternative development and drug demand reduction,” said the 2013 annual report of the Vienna-based International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), released in London on Tuesday. The INCB report, which provides a comprehensive survey of the drug control situation in various parts of the world, said it is “seriously concerned” that the illicit cultivation of opium poppy increased for three consecutive years since 2010, reaching record levels in 2013 with 209,000 hectares of area under opium poppy cultivation. For more: bit.ly/1gQCkVl
UN Photo / Eric Kanalstein