At the outset, I would like to congratulate you, Mr. President, on your successful presidency of the Security Council and on its convening of this very timely consideration of the issue of Afghanistan today in the Security Council. I also thank you for inviting me to this meeting.
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I welcome today’s debate in the Council, designed to promote effective action against the challenges that peacekeeping operations are dealing with in the form of asymmetric threats. One of those challenges, as the Council is aware, is the ties that exist between terrorists and criminal networks in m…
I should like at the outset to thank the French presidency of the Security Council for organizing this important meeting on drug trafficking in the Sahel and West Africa. I also wish to thank the Security Council for integrating the fight against drug trafficking and organized crime into the mandate…
It is a great honour for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) to brief the Security Council on the impact of organized crime on security, stability and development in West Africa and the Sahel region. Indeed, those transnational challenges in the region have evolved from social and c…
I would thank you again, Mr. President, for taking the initiative of organizing this very important Security Council meeting for an assessment of the work of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in the field of combating drugs and organized crime.
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