Drugs


SOC/NAR/916
08/09/2004
Press Release
SOC/NAR/916

Sri Lanka, United Nations Drugs and Crime Office Discuss Areas of Mutual Concern


(Reissued as Received.)


VIENNA, 8 September (UN Information Service) -- Jayantha Dhanapala, Secretary General of the Government Peace Secretariat of Sri Lanka and Sarath Amunugama, Minister of Finance, met with Antonio Maria Costa, the Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Vienna today.

SOC/NAR/915
23/08/2004
Press Release
SOC/NAR/915


United Nations Drugs and Crime Office to Provide Assistance


to Pakistan’s Intelligence Agencies


(Reissued as received.)


VIENNA, 23 August (UN Information Service) -- The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Ministry of Interior and Narcotics Control of Pakistan have signed an agreement on a new technical assistance project to enhance the intelligence capacity of key law-enforcement agencies in Pakistan.

SOC/NAR/914
13/08/2004
Press Release
SOC/NAR/914


UN STUDYONAFGHANISTAN’S ‘OPIUM ECONOMY’ WINS AWARD


(Reissued as received.)


VIENNA, 13 August (UN Information Service) -- “The Opium Economy in Afghanistan:  An International Problem”, a United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) publication, has won the “Notable Government Documents 2003” award, presented by the Library Journal, a publication of the American Library Association.