International Narcotics Control: Hearings Before the Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session, Thursday, September 12, 1985 |
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ABUSE AND CONTROL activities aerial agencies Argentina Attorney General Meese awareness believe Belize Ben Gilman Bolivia BRARY Burma certainly Chairman coca coca production cocaine Colombia COMMITTEE ON NARCOTICS concern CONGRESS CONGRESS CONGRESS LIBRARY CONGRESS THE LIBRARY continuing cooperation corruption cotics crop control curb discussions drug abuse Drug Enforcement drug trafficking economic Ecuador Ed Towns effective enforcement efforts eradication effort F CONGRESS foreign Gilman hear herbicide heroin illicit narcotics increased initiatives interdiction international narcotics control issue Ladies conference Latin America law enforcement LIBRARY OF CONGRESS marijuana cultivation marijuana eradication program meeting Mexico multilateral NARCOTICS ABUSE Narcotics Control Strategy narcotics production narcotics trafficking national security NGRESS Operation Operation Condor opium Pakistan performance on narcotics political commitment priority problem production and trafficking progress RANGEL Rodino ROWLAND Secretary Shultz seizures SELECT COMMITTEE source countries South America statement testimony Thailand Thank THOMAS trip U.S. assistance United Nations
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Page 35 - We must apply pressure at all points in the chain — through crop control; through increased seizures of both drug products and financial assets; through intensified investigation and prosecution of traffickers; and through effective treatment and prevention of drug abuse. International strategies...
Page 37 - ... report concluded that in order to bring this about through immensely expanded world trade in coal, it would be necessary for coal-producing and importing nations to adopt policies facilitating coal development and usage. Following up on this recommendation, the heads of state of the United States, Canada, Federal Republic of Germany, France, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom conferred at their economic summit meeting in Tokyo in June 1979. They pledged to increase as far as possible coal use,...
Page 38 - There have also been important multilateral discussions of narcotics control initiatives sponsored by the Organization of American States and the Association of South East Asian Nations, both of which were addressed by Secretary Shultz.
Page 7 - ASSISTANT SECRETARY JON R. THOMAS BUREAU OF INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS MATTERS DEPARTMENT OF STATE...
Page 14 - At a time when narcotics traffickers rule segments of some countries and dominate local economies, when the rule of terror holds sway over the rule of law, when the children of virtually every continent are at risk of drug addiction, certainly there can be no passive nations.
Page 38 - There have been many changes, and perhaps the most profound has been the realization by other governments that drug trafficking is a threat to their national security and their economic and social well-being...
Page 46 - Peru. 45 -15(GENERAL REVIEW OF PROGRAMS) Because this is an oversight hearing, the Department has been asked to provide a review of programs. The following summaries are excerpted from the Mid-Year Update of the International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, which was submitted to Congress this week. LATIN AMERICA Argentina. Federal police and customs authorities are reorganizing narcotics efforts as part of a new and more coordinated response to both internal and international narcotics trafficking...
Page 5 - ... some good news and some bad news. The bad news was that the pieces would have to be put into storage temporarily.
Page 37 - On the diplomatic front, there has been considerable action, much of it encouraging and unprecedented. Indeed, we can say that in 1986 we are entering a new phase of this problem, a phase in which source countries promote narcotics control in the interests of their own national security and public welfare -- with the political and financial support of a much broader interest coalition within the international community. President Reagan and the leaders of Canada...
Page 38 - Broad agreement on the need to link economic assistance from the world community to progress on narcotics control, a goal which the Department of State shares with the Congress, is among the highest priority goals we bring to all of these discussions on the multilateral front.