Drugs


SOC/NAR/874
10/09/2003
Press Release
SOC/NAR/874


UN DRUG CHIEF URGES NATO FORCES TO TACKLE TRAFFICKING


Opium Cultivation in Afghanistan Presents a Serious Security Challenge


(Reissued as received.)

SOC/NAR/872
15/07/2003
Press Release
SOC/NAR/872


UNITED NATIONS, REGIONAL GROUP COOPERATE AGAINST DRUG AND CRIME FLOW

FROM WEST AND CENTRAL ASIA


(Reissued as received.)


VIENNA, 15 July (UN Information Service) -- The Secretary-General of the Economic Cooperation Organization  (ECO), Ambassador Seyed Mojtaba Arastou from Iran, paid a visit on Monday to the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Antonio Maria Costa.

SOC/NAR/863
27/05/2003
Press Release
SOC/NAR/863


INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL BOARD RE-ELECTS DR. EMAFO OF NIGERIA AS PRESIDENT


(Reissued as received.)


VIENNA, 27 May (UN Information Service) -- Dr. Philip O. Emafo, an international drug control expert from Nigeria, has been re-elected President of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) at its seventy-seventh session in Vienna (26 May-6 June).  Dr. Emafo was first elected President of the INCB in 2002.