ZAGREB/LONDON, Nov 25 (Hina) - Participants in an international conference on organised crime in south-east Europe, which took place in London on Monday, announced a more intensified fight against trafficking in humans, drugs and arms
in the region, but admitted that at the moment they were losing the struggle.
ZAGREB/LONDON, Nov 25 (Hina) - Participants in an international
conference on organised crime in south-east Europe, which took
place in London on Monday, announced a more intensified fight
against trafficking in humans, drugs and arms in the region, but
admitted that at the moment they were losing the struggle. #L#
Addressing the gathered, the European Union High Representative
for foreign policy and security, Javier Solana, said the success of
bids to build a better future in the region depended on the
application of adequate means in the clamp-down on organised
crime.
The conference, organised at the initiative of British Premier Tony
Blair, pooled 57 delegations - representatives of countries in the
region, the EU, the United States, Canada and many international
organisations.
British Home Secretary David Blunkett asserted that the Balkans had
become an entrance for organised crime to Europe.
According to some figures issued by Interpol, groups of organised
criminals from the former Yugoslavia control 70 percent of the
heroin trade in some EU nations.
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