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VN, UN increase efforts to combat drugs, crimes

The Vietnamese Government has achieved many important results in the prevention and control of drugs and crimes over the past decade, said a conference in Hanoi on Jan. 17.

The Vietnamese Government has achieved many importantresults in the prevention and control of drugs and crimes over the pastdecade, said a conference in Hanoi on Jan. 17.

Theconference, jointly organised by the Ministry of Public Security andthe United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), said the resultswere recognised as raising people’s awareness of the danger of drugsand crimes, building and perfecting the legal system, issuing anti-drugand crime action programmes and plans, basically eradicating thegrowing of opium plants in the country and increasing the efficiency ofthe fight against drugs and crimes in Vietnam.

More than 10,000cases of drug trafficking were detected each year, more than 20,000people were tried and a large amount of heroin, addictive substancesand methamphetamines were seized.

Delegates at the conferenceacknowledged that Vietnam has considered drugs and crimes as a threatto social order, security and stability of each nation and the wholeworld and it has actively responded to UN activities in the field.

Thedelegates said that the results were attributable to the Vietnamesegovernment’s efforts and the international community’s importantcontributions, particularly the UNODC consultation in policy making andbuilding the capacity of Vietnam’s anti-drugs and crime agencies.

Theseagencies will implement the anti-drugs master plan until 2020, buildingamendments and supplements to the anti-drug law, a national strategy onthe prevention and control of drugs until 2020 and vision for 2030, aswell as mobilising aid for international cooperation projects in thefield.

UNODC has assisted Vietnam in combating illegaltrafficking, improving national administration and criminal justice,reducing demand for illicit drugs and fighting HIV/AIDS. The projectshave been devised based on the country’s five-year socio-economicdevelopment plan (2006-2011) and its national programmes on theprevention and control of drugs, HIV/AIDS, human trafficking,corruption, money laundering and domestic violence.

Conferenceparticipants also discussed new cooperation orientations for devising abilateral cooperation programme and consolidating and enhancingeffective cooperation between both sides’ relevant agencies inanti-drugs and crimes./.

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