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WASHINGTON, June 11 (Hina) - Croatia supports the international
community's new strategy in the organised fight against narcotics
and is prepared to participate, Croatian Science and Technology
Minister Ivica Kostovic said in New York on Wednesday.
"My government expressed readiness to do its part in full,"
Kostovic said at an extraordinary session of the UN General
Assembly focusing on the abuse of drugs in the world.
Kostovic said the problem of narcotics in Croatia had worsened in
the post-war period, so the government had taken new measures.
"The problem has been recognised and a government's committee
suggested a strategy on state level aimed at preventing the abuse of
drugs, and the Parliament adopted it in January 196," Kostovic
said.
He added that this strategy made use of experience of other
countries which showed that measures against drug trafficking were
not sufficient and that it was necessary to focus the fight towards
a decrease in demand.
"My government strongly endorses this concept and supports the
strengthening of cooperation in the field of prevention".
"It is our estimate that the spread of the epidemic of abuse of
drugs, as a post-war syndrome, has been harnessed, but an increase
is still present due to the same reasons which made the abuse of
drugs a global problem," Kostovic said.
According to him, the new law on money laundering and the law on the
control of drugs is to modernise Croatian law and provide Croatia
with the needed legal preconditions for the fight against the
illegal trafficking of drugs and for diminishing their
consequences.
Croatia is interested in becoming an active member of the UN Drug
Control Programme (UNDCP) for central and southeastern Europe,
Kostovic said.
Croatia is working with the UNDCP on a joint two-year project of
modernising methods of drug control and relevant laws, the
application of the laws and measures for lessening demand for
drugs.
Our priorities include a strong control of the so-called Balkan
Passage, as well as participation in coordinated activities of
central European countries, Kostovic said.
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