Four Asian Nations Join Drug-Fighting Alliance

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Four Asian Nations Join Drug-Fighting Alliance

United Press International (10/27/93)

Bangkok--Four Asian countries added their names to the United Nations' International Drug Control Program to combat illegal drug production and trafficking in the "Golden Triangle" area of Southeast Asia. China, Laos, Burma, and Thailand on Wednesday signed a "Memorandum of Understanding" agreement designed to strengthen cooperation in fighting illicit substances. It also provides for high-level consultations between the four governments and the UNDCP about the regional problems linked to illegal drug production, trafficking, abuse, and HIV infection caused by injecting drug use. There has been some progress in reducing opium production in Laos and Thailand and blocking heroin trafficking from the Golden Triangle to China, said the four nations in a statement. Sub regional countries, however, "have also experienced increasingly serious drug abuse problems, particularly among poor disadvantaged groups, and the intravenous use of heroin has been contributing to the spread of the HIV-AIDS infection," the statement reported.

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