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welcome to sophie and sophie shevardnadze the global war on drugs has been lasting for decades but new substances are being developed and drop dealing schools are multiplying and violence persists is just a lost battle for humanity will to talk about this i'm joined by you to see the tough executive director of the united nations office on drugs and crime. while the nations of the world step up the ante drug efforts. operations against councils and increasing seizures drug production and the abuse of them continue to rise despite

those efforts with the mapi are constantly devising new substances and ways to deliver them does the international community have enough strength to enforce drug prohibition globally what will the debates about legalizing drug use bring to the fight against the mafia and will it ever be one u.t.c. the out of the executive director of the united nations office on drugs and crime welcome to the show it is great to have you with us mr few thought of for more than house the same tree the wall has been fighting a war on drugs and it is a fight that has the u.n. support however you know better than anyone the drug use and production are as high as ever new drugs are being introduced and violence remains a serious side effect i mean 50 years of challenging the drug industry had on and there is not even a dent on it yet the united nations is clear that its course is correct

how so. 1st of all i would like to welcome you all from vienna i had quarters of the year in office on drugs crime and indeed is that very timely. interview as well launching a new world drug report indeed. the sum somehow united nations a strength to support member states in dealing was a real drug problem i would not use it warm warm dry because it has never been used within the united nations context but at the same time we have to bear in mind that . just in to south and 17. 170000000 people have used drugs or was rolled which is more or less stable statistics but areas here as there is a slow growth but there is

a gross is proportionate to the growth of the road population it means that the situation is dramatic but not as dramatic as it is presented by some. media also there are some successes and of course there is a increase in production of all known types of drugs i mean opium and opiates in afghanistan in latin america synthetic drugs everywhere in the road but this process is a little bit of set but i didn't please and seizures by more efficient work of local floor enforcement to prevent illicit dr rafiq and. that's why the overall statistics. more or less stable some says he doesn't know what oregon why was legalizing weed you've said that wasn't the answer now sammy or some past larry

why has been made legal in canada is spreading across the united states is this legalization wave hindering the work of your organization. i must say that so far the absolute majority of member states states but is the direct control conventions are firmly against the legalization of drugs that is a position which has been confirmed recently in march ministerial meeting here in vienna and there was a ministerial meeting adopted to misstate of declare ation and affirming is it ever been so for the city dock and throw conventions actually his arrest some exceptions canada. europe away and some states in the united states but so far just today and is not developing and it's really a storm. can throw substances which is cannabis. does not

affect my child the activities of united nations office of that i was and that i'm always aware following quick to close the these threads was concerned and actually we have notice that in the united states for instance some states where money while his leg allies. didn't. it is out in. stopping the black market it continues to exist that is true so when talking about the drug issue mr good data she asked the sizes prevention and treatment and he was the one who presided over the decriminalization reforms in portugal which are hailed as success does the fact that he's secretary general now mean the un stance on drugs will lean towards recommend dick decriminalization or his promoting of the global balanced approach to the world drug problem which come by supply adoption and demand reduction loring's was meant to treatment today bill it deshaun them prevents that

is through direct concern that only one in 7 that i do to persons have access to through appropriate medical treatment a global which is of course not appropriate at that stage as far as decay militarisation many countries are promoting decriminalization or rather dippin it is a show of offenses related to the procession of drugs in smoke one to 2 for personal use or some other to admit if to it but it doesn't mean that we should be more lenient to is the criminals with dr traffickers so a group called the global commission on drug policy which lists kofi anon and mongoose member says that punitive policies are only helping crime and it's time for a more humane approach is how drug and geos overwhelmingly support this idea and leaders

of countries that have been hurt by the drug wars are calling for a stop to prohibition is the united nations support for this idea is only a matter of time in 10 years 20 years or never. first of all i have to confess that i'm not there or is it the great majority. enjoys a supporting approach. to meeting with them break of the n.p.n. is a meeting that joke i made to sit in regularly as a year and you know you see that water. sometimes when i meet with. among themselves even more than it was me a great majority of n.g.o.s also opposed to attempts to the good guys of the rocks but is always happens the majority is more silence in their minority. so what do you say to their argument that legalizing drug use will

hurt the illicit drug mafia more than fighting them it seems to me you are not convinced by this line of thought right why expectations that legalisation of cannabis would reduce the legal market and unfortunately it's confirmed and we'll have more and more evidence that the. drug market exists expressive the moving of drugs to schools to other places where they should not go. dr dell's multifaceted criminal organisation. does issue its reach from one criminal activities to another criminal activities even even to support to terrorism so we must be very careful with that we should understand that. as it is not my opinion this is the opinion of the majority of member states and firmed in many documents adopted in the united nations context that this and the

proper led to believe that the good ization would help to to come but crime it can only benefit criminals. so informing drug policy should their stories be more concerned with the mafia side of things i mean all the violence exploitation corruption and ties with terrorism or the human health side of things as in preventing epidemics of drug use and the cost of quinces which $1.00. only a balanced approach can help us of course one force month must be supported but as it is not enough the best way of prevention is the prevention of the early stage but also treatment ability ation and integration of the drug addicted person and to society also very important task of the international community when we come by and boss supply and demand reduction when we put in accordance with human rights

standards was a core in accordance with international treaties so it can hope to succeed. but look at mexico i mean the drug mafia is threatening the functioning of this state itself the war against drug cartels involves hangs and helicopters but that doesn't deter people from joining the cartels i mean especially if that is the only job on the horizon for them so mexico and countries like mexico will never will against occur tell us unless they fix their economy right mexico is making huge efforts to come but organized crime determine no as you as you call them f.e groups as a multifaceted criminal groups dealing doing many types of organized crime including drops of course lisha directed africa but oh so. many french are in some

drugs including opioids in mexico. it is a very difficult task. where work in critical as there was mexico was an office so if you know this you supporting mexico. and we believe that only way is it was in the international no. national norms were going to come by and fighting organized crime fighting drugs where is more attention to people protecting their rights protecting the rights to health. providing them all necessary support. from drug addiction he was there is no demand on drugs there will be no supply it's clear all right mr fidel is a worry going to take a short break right now and when we're back we'll continue talking to. the executive director of the united nations office on drugs and crime discussing

international efforts in fighting drug trafficking and production stay with us. u.s. china talks are back on track but a 2nd front has opened up the u.s. europe trade is heading into the storm and is again in the center of the debate also the circus has come to town and it's called the democratic. politicians to do something. they put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you want to be president. wanted. to go right for us this is what i'm up for 3 of the more people. interested

always in the water. we're back with you to see delta's executive director of the united nations office on drugs and crime talking about fighting the problem of drug abuse and trafficking so this is you know at present trump is struggling to build a wall on the us mexico border and one of his main arguments is that the war will help calm but drug trafficking can it. my impression was that the wall was

mostly destined to go to prevent this migration. unfortunately the. united states a experience the. crisis as you know although last year there been a very significant decline in the number of deaths road where this event a new and now this synthetic opioids crisis but still it is so one of the major problems of north america and also expanding to other continents whatever could be done to prevent. the trafficking but also in this its use of medications or diversion of medication and. this could have as a people but once again what is important to provide people with. medical service medical care and prevention efforts. could play

a major role we also have an example of profit bishan that works in japan for for instance japan's tough loss enable the government to claim a very low addiction rate do you feel the japanese approach is worth studying and maybe i mean waiting. direct control conventions are flexible and say allow qantas a lot of flexibility is true or to make sure that all measures that they can connect go to through the conventions. of data. better fit for purpose of the national national legislation national conditions national traditions what what waters through the house banishment including the. death penalty is not helping. to prevent the drug use and drug abuse and though this is the act of africa and. we don't see any signs that harsh or more

moderate punishment is it has a real impact on the flow of the rocks what is important is international cooperation because we're dealing with transnational crime which is so full of drugs coming from one source transit so remaining contradictions and dig up a distant nation so more and better that british use it is better to deal with the broad drug problem. so whether society should be punitive or tolerance towards drug users is a subject of massive debate but in countries with radical anti-drug that it is there is room for abuse of tough drug laws for instance just recently our journalists russian journalists iran go north whom the police tried to frame as a drug dealer how to keep up the fight against drugs with legal tools and not

tempt the authorities into be using the system. csound sees is that if the rule of law law bidens. protection of. human rights you know cases of people have the right. to be protected from open to abuse this including flow from law enforcement 3rd it is clear. i want to talk a bit about countries like latin america where farmers turn to growing drop crops out of economic interest because nothing else brings them as much money as coca leaf for instance or in afghanistan where people depend on the poppy to survive how do you do tell them to stop growing drugs because well it's really bad but when they have to choose between that and hunger they always will choose doing that. election america treated the rest of the major coca produces

a lot bureau and what we're doing with have important programs multi 1000000 programs self-supporting in this contest in developing president if livelihoods. in the cottage and farmers to produce note. but rather. food like. away. like cow to trees and many other useful things of course that is less attractive to them but it is more predictable for them for their families for their futures as specialist that if they have lent it will sit difficult state and. they can feel more free to to live in this they said to produce legal livelihoods for them for themselves but also for the f.m. of the senate would have a good examples including here in austria where the local investors will companies

buying these sort of products from colombia from pharaoh and selling can euro as far as i'm going to stand and serve that is another problem we're also trying to be self-aware but unfortunately the overall situation in this country political instability and security. deduces out at best it is to act and that's why unfortunately we're seeing unprecedented threat level of. opium production unfair and production in afghanistan. and i've heard you say that it's very important to engage the local population in fighting drug production in mafia crime groups are usually behind this business can we expect ordinary folks to get in confrontation with this dangerous people one their families may get killed and their homes may end up burnt. you know i'm traveling through a lot i'm visiting call this country's including can let in america ever again and

. can tell you that speaking to local farmers i made a conclusion that moral is. dope. they're going to have to put up or adoption. ration but they need more support from local authorities they need stable markets for their leases products they need. better infrastructure and they need support from big companies. supermarkets if it is done as it is being done and sometimes there are some that america would hope was to be successful operation and people will continue to switch from legal through legal. so even if you bomb all the poppy and cannabis fields people are using more and more since saturday drugs so chemistry has taken over nature in this field harder to detect easier to make arson tatic drugs more of

a danger to society is than those which have to be grown 1st. and that is true unfortunately there were several real crisis meant if it's i mean crisis and they share. it's as a scale of financial disaster in qantas like malaysia. neighboring countries. indonesia even japan would have the problem of you say of substances which a developing so fast that governments and international can is a show and do not have enough time to schedules them to put them on the international drive money toward a democrat troll jet is a real problem and in many countries including the russian synthetic drugs becoming more prevalent. so the dish will directly. and open when marfan so we're with early voting system for new sacred fire substances year in vienna and

we're trying to devise counters on the appearance of the markets of new types of synthetic drugs you know like everything else drugs have also gone through this 21st century change i mean you don't even have to go to a shady part of town to get drugs anymore there's websites on a dark now for everything these days how does that change the way you work i mean how do you do what's this relatively new headache. is it israel had a could not to be headache so far as a proportion of the share of this dark net traffic and is not comparable to the overall amount of illusia direct traffic and but it is a growing faster growing. growing gets around and a day care of for it and that means that we need to develop more quickly international cooperation in terms of cyber crime which includes the types of

low for the use of cyber and not only for the robbers but also for the. illicit activities that is a sensitive issue gunter is may have different opinions on that but. i believe it was a good will was a spirit of unison a compromise a quid fine solution as to some. of cybercrime including the use of cyberspace for illicit director africa as you said so what's more important dealing with the supply chain with poppy fields and coke up plantations or shutting down the marketplaces. borth important of course we need to start from the source but also the traffic and interruption of traffic and is very important we give you one example where facing unprecedented. reasonable alteration on production of. opium poppy never again is the election of

opium and heroin is growing but at the same time we have less and less. heroin and opium. in those on the route from afghanistan sort of central asia to russia most of the road was used to transport. 10 percent of all opium and heroin but as action in afghanistan now it would be less than one percent and there would be different factors one of them of course is a better international operation and would you consent to a share better coordination before enforcement activities better efforts to prevention and there's one over the good news thank you very much for this interview or talking to you if you do it just for executive director of the united nations office on drugs and crime discussing the air national efforts and combat a truck trafficking and organized crime that's it for this edition cell phone call

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