UN Anti-drugs Chief: Fighting Crime and Illicit Drug Trade Must be on Development Agenda

by Gary Kopycinski on June 26, 2012

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NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–26 June 2012. Highlighting the impact of drug abuse around the world, the head of the United Nations anti-drugs office today said that countering transnational organized crime and illicit drugs must become an integral part of the development agenda.