The national strategy on drug control will focus on the role of the community.
Delegates from the Public Security Ministry and the Standing Office forDrug Control gathered in Hanoi on August 4 to give opinions on thenational strategy on drug control through 2020 with a vision for 2030.
Participants proposed that the strategy’s social measures need to raisepeople’s awareness of the danger drugs pose to themselves, theirfamilies and their community.
They recommended improving strict punishment on drug crimes andbuilding regulations for drug-fighting forces, as well as puttingtogether a crack force to fight the social evil.
Meanwhile, the strategy’s political measures should apportionresponsibility to party organisations as well as administrative andmass organisations to take a lead role in the fight against drugs.
Addressing the seminar, Sen. Lieut Gen. Le The Tiem, on behalf of thePublic Security Ministry and the Board for formulating the strategy,said that such proposals will contribute to the draft strategy. Aconference to assess the draft will be held in late August beforesubmission to the Prime Minister for approval.
The drafting of the strategy began in June 2007 and this was the sixth seminar on the document.
Numerous senior officials from the party and government stated thatfighting drugs was the duty of the entire party, people and thepolitical system and an urgent, essential, short- and long-term task inthe strategy on national security.
The current draft national strategy on drug control includes 14programmes and projects, six action items and six groups of measures toreach three common goals and five detailed targets.
Under the draft strategy, Vietnam strives to reduce the rate of drugaddition in the population by between 3-5 percent, annually. By 2020,70 percent of the nation’s communes will have no drug addicts, all drugaddicts will be listed and managed, 25 percent of drug addicts will bein detoxification centres, and all drug addicts in communes will bedetoxified by the community./.
Delegates from the Public Security Ministry and the Standing Office forDrug Control gathered in Hanoi on August 4 to give opinions on thenational strategy on drug control through 2020 with a vision for 2030.
Participants proposed that the strategy’s social measures need to raisepeople’s awareness of the danger drugs pose to themselves, theirfamilies and their community.
They recommended improving strict punishment on drug crimes andbuilding regulations for drug-fighting forces, as well as puttingtogether a crack force to fight the social evil.
Meanwhile, the strategy’s political measures should apportionresponsibility to party organisations as well as administrative andmass organisations to take a lead role in the fight against drugs.
Addressing the seminar, Sen. Lieut Gen. Le The Tiem, on behalf of thePublic Security Ministry and the Board for formulating the strategy,said that such proposals will contribute to the draft strategy. Aconference to assess the draft will be held in late August beforesubmission to the Prime Minister for approval.
The drafting of the strategy began in June 2007 and this was the sixth seminar on the document.
Numerous senior officials from the party and government stated thatfighting drugs was the duty of the entire party, people and thepolitical system and an urgent, essential, short- and long-term task inthe strategy on national security.
The current draft national strategy on drug control includes 14programmes and projects, six action items and six groups of measures toreach three common goals and five detailed targets.
Under the draft strategy, Vietnam strives to reduce the rate of drugaddition in the population by between 3-5 percent, annually. By 2020,70 percent of the nation’s communes will have no drug addicts, all drugaddicts will be listed and managed, 25 percent of drug addicts will bein detoxification centres, and all drug addicts in communes will bedetoxified by the community./.
