martes, 17 de febrero de 2009

UNODC Executive Secretary Met with Cuban First Vice President

HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 17 . Cuba´s First Vice President Jose Ramon MachadoVentura met on Monday evening with the Executive Secretary of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Antonio Maria Costa. Also present at the meeting was Cuba´s Justice Minister Maria Esther Reus, in her capacity as president of the National Commission on Drugs.

During the meeting, the Cuban First Vice President briefed the visiting UN official on the Cuban experience in the prevention and struggle against drugs and he ratified his country´s willingness to keep cooperating with United Nations mechanisms in that particular issue.

The Cuban government maintains its firms political will in the fight against drugs; it is an effort aimed at achieving the appropriate combination of prevention actions and the struggle in that area, for which the Cuban state allocates the necessary resources despite current economic limitations.

The Cuban effort has allowed increasing effective control and preventing the negative impact of drug abuse in Cuban society.

(Se reúne machado ventura con director ejecutivo de la oficina de la onu contra las drogas y el delito)

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