the heads of state conveyed their deep worry for the serious threats that the rising decline in drugs abuse faces for society and the lives and health of women and people , and for the destabilizing influences that illegal use , production , trafficking and distribution of narcotic drugs psychotropic chemicals and tobacco - related offences have for the affected countries of the southwest asian region .
The Heads of state expressed their deep concern at the fast and continuing degradation of the environment, including extensive destruction of forests, in the South Asian region.