MaximsNewsNetwork: UN DRUGS & CRIME: UNODC Antonio Maria Costa

MaximsNewsNetwork: 22 October 2009 – UNTV – UNODC: A new report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) says that opium trafficked from Afghanistan to other countries has created a market worth billion. Catering to 15 million addicts, it causes up to 100000 deaths per year, spreads HIV at an unprecedented rate, and funds criminal groups, insurgents and terrorists. A new report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) says that opium trafficked from Afghanistan to other countries has created a market worth billion, catering to 15 million addicts, causing up to 100000 deaths per year, spreading HIV at an unprecedented rate, and funding criminal groups, insurgents and terrorists. Afghanistan has the world monopoly of opium cultivation, producing 92 percent of the raw material for the worlds deadliest drug heroin. In an interview ahead of the launch, the top UN official on drugs and crime, Antonio Maria Costa noted that in terms of human lives, drugs from Afghanistan have taken a far higher toll on NATO countries than the ongoing conflict. SOUNDBITE (English) Antonio Maria Costa, Executive Director, UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC): Opium cultivation is also making more money for the Taliban now than in the 1990s when they were in power, says UNODCs Chief of Studies and Threat Analysis, Thibault Le Pichon. SOUNDBITE (French) Thibault Le Pichon, Chief of Studies and Threat Analysis Section, UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC): We calculate in …
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