Regional nations step up fight against drugs
The conference,
the second of its kind, reviewed the cooperation in drug prevention and
control among the three countries since the first conference held in
Thailand ’s Mukdahan province in 2009.
The participants put
forward cooperation measures, debated possibilities for further
cooperation along the corridor and shared experience in the fight
against cross-border drug trafficking.
Colonel Nguyen Kien,
Chief of the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security’s Bureau on Drug
Control, said the conference aimed to realise strong commitments of
the Vietnamese, Lao and Thai governments in the fight against drug
crimes, especially along the EWEC.
In recent years,
drug-related crimes in Vietnam 's central provinces along the EWEC
have became more complicated and dangerous, Kien said, adding that many
transnational drug smuggling rings have been set up to transport drugs
from the "Golden Triangle" to Vietnam .
Just in two years,
authorities of Da Nang city, Thua Thien-Hue and Quang Tri provinces
detected 290 cases involving 609 offenders and seized over 838 kg of
heroin, 11.7 kg of marijuana, and nearly 158,800 amphetamine tablets./.