the presidents of state conveyed their intense concern for the serious risk that the rising trend in drug abuse is for nature and the lives and destiny of children and young , and for the destabilizing effect that clandestine use , creation , exploitation and dispersal of narcotic drugs psychotropic substances and drug - related offences have for the affected regions of the south asian regional .
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.