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    UN: DRUG ABUSE ON RISE IN SOUTHERN CAUCASUS

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    March 3, 2011 - 14:55 AMT 10:55 GMT

    According to the Report of the International Narcotics Control Board
    (INCB) of the UN for 2010, the southern Caucasus is increasingly being
    used as a transit area for consignments of opiates from Afghanistan,
    and as a result, drug abuse is on the rise in the subregion.

    "Given the long borders that countries of that subregion share with
    Iran (Islamic Republic of), the Russian Federation and Turkey and
    their access to the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, the Board remains
    concerned that the situation with regard to drug trafficking and abuse
    in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia may continue to deteriorate unless
    increased attention is given to information-sharing, more efficient
    border control, drug demand reduction and regional and national
    coordination of drug control activities," the report reads.

    As for Armenia, the report says: "A mission of the Board visited
    Armenia in October 2010. The Board's previous mission to that country
    was in 1997. The Board notes the commitment of the competent national
    authorities of Armenia to comply with the provisions of the three
    international drug control conventions, to which Armenia is a party.

    The Board has identified shortcomings in mutual cooperation and
    information exchange among the drug control authorities in the country
    and encourages the Government to address that issue.

    Armenia has recently been targeted by criminal groups engaged in
    trafficking in precursors used in the illicit manufacture of heroin
    and amphetamine-type stimulants, as evidenced by the clandestine
    amphetamine laboratories uncovered and dismantled in the country in
    2010. The Board has requested the Government to further strengthen
    the control of precursors. The Board recommends the Government to
    assess the requirements for narcotic drugs used for pain treatment
    in the country and to identify and address any impediments to making
    them available in sufficient quantities for medical use."




    From: A. Papazian
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