As drug trafficking undermines peace and security, UN calls for global measures
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Channel: United Nations · 2009 · News & Politics
United Nations, New York, 8 December 2009 - The Security Council today called for greater international cooperation in fighting drug trafficking, with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon terming it a leading threat to global peace and security. "So far, cooperation between governments is lagging behind cooperation between organized crime networks", he told the 15-member body at the start of a day-long debate. Drug trafficking is fuelling brutal insurgencies in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Myanmar, spreading violence in West Africa, Central Asia, Central America and the Caribbean and threatening to reverse UN peacebuilding efforts in Afghanistan, Haiti, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Sierra Leone and elsewhere, he warned. View the entire Security Council (Real media, 3 hours and 3 minutes) http://webcast.un.org/ramgen/ondemand/sc/2009/sc091208am.rm News story: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33180&Cr=drugs&Cr1=
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