Saturday, December 08, 2007

Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia cooperate in drug control

08/12/2007
VNA (Hanoi)

VietNamNet Bridge – The 7th Vietnam-Laos-Cambodia Drug Control Officials’ Meeting opened in Siem Reap, Cambodia, on December 5 under the chairmanship of Cambodia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sar Kheng.

The Vietnamese delegation to the meeting is headed by Public Security Minister Le The Tiem.

Participants reviewed their drug fighting cooperation between their border provinces and discussed the exchange of information and experiences in fighting cross-border drug crimes.

They worked out plan to assist each other in preventing the trading of narcotics and strengthen coordination to effectively prevent cross-border drug trafficking.

Cambodian Deputy PM Sar Kheng said that the three countries have obtained marked achievements in the fight against drug crimes. However, there remained problems that require relevant agencies of the three countries to strengthen cooperation to put this evil under control.

At the meeting, Vietnam agreed to help train anti-drug crime forces for Laos and Cambodia in 2008 and build a detoxification centre for Cambodia.

The three sides also agreed to cooperate to prevent the trade of sassafras oil, a precursor chemical for illegal drug (MDMA), from Cambodia to Vietnam and Laos.

Vietnam pledged continued cooperation with Laos and Cambodia within regional and world agreements on drug control.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yes, drug can dragged us all down to hell. We must take this issue seriously, and we must not allowed gangs to have control of this industry, otherwise, they will control us and destroyed everything we work for.

Anonymous said...

This is just a cooperative political agenda. In reality, drugs are huge transported from these 3 countries.

But for the neo-colonialism and neo-expansionism of Hanoi they has created this cooperative to be sound for the international observers.

KY

Anonymous said...

Bullshit, drugs usually controlled by NGOs.