Dialogue is established with the communities, women's groups and local authorities to help them elaborate their own alternative development plan. At the United Nations General Assembly special session on the world drug problem in June, it is hoped that Governments will adopt a political declaration committing themselves to take concrete action to reduce the supply of and demand for illicit drugs. One part of the declaration calls for the elimination, or substantial reduction, of all illicit drug cultivation by 2008. The strategy is based on cooperation. We will fine-tune the plan in cooperation with partners.
Some experts believe the time is ripe for such a bold initiative.
Today the countries are more sensitive to the problems of drugs. This awareness was not present some years ago and therefore you could not build on the cooperation of neighbouring countries like you can today. Ann Marie Erb, tel.