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
conference, jointly organised by the Ministry of Public Security and
the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), said the results
were recognised as raising people’s awareness of the danger of drugs
and crimes, building and perfecting the legal system, issuing anti-drug
and crime action programmes and plans, basically eradicating the
growing of opium plants in the country and increasing the efficiency of
the fight against drugs and crimes in Vietnam.
More than 10,000
cases of drug trafficking were detected each year, more than 20,000
people were tried and a large amount of heroin, addictive substances
and methamphetamines were seized.
Delegates at the conference
acknowledged that Vietnam has considered drugs and crimes as a threat
to social order, security and stability of each nation and the whole
world and it has actively responded to UN activities in the field.
The
delegates said that the results were attributable to the Vietnamese
government’s efforts and the international community’s important
contributions, particularly the UNODC consultation in policy making and
building the capacity of Vietnam’s anti-drugs and crime agencies.
These
agencies will implement the anti-drugs master plan until 2020, building
amendments and supplements to the anti-drug law, a national strategy on
the prevention and control of drugs until 2020 and vision for 2030, as
well as mobilising aid for international cooperation projects in the
field.
UNODC has assisted Vietnam in combating illegal
trafficking, improving national administration and criminal justice,
reducing demand for illicit drugs and fighting HIV/AIDS. The projects
have been devised based on the country’s five-year socio-economic
development plan (2006-2011) and its national programmes on the
prevention and control of drugs, HIV/AIDS, human trafficking,
corruption, money laundering and domestic violence.
Conference
participants also discussed new cooperation orientations for devising a
bilateral cooperation programme and consolidating and enhancing
effective cooperation between both sides’ relevant agencies in
anti-drugs and crimes./.