ONA and the United Nations join forces in favor of the fight against drugs - MPPRE

ONA and the United Nations join forces in favor of the fight against drugs

This Thursday, the director of the National Anti-Drug Office (ONA), Alberto Matheus and the global director of the Operations Division of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Miwa Kato, held a videoconference with the purpose of exploring mechanisms for cooperation between the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the multilateral organization in the fight against drug trafficking and consumption of illicit substances.

The permanent representative of Venezuela to the United Nations Office in Vienna, Jesse Chacón, and the Vice-minister for Multilateral Issues of the People’s Power Ministry for Foreign Relations, Alexander Yánez, participated.

The telematic meeting was conducive to sensitizing the high authorities about the current politicization of the fight against drug trafficking with destabilizing purposes, “taking as an example the countries of the Caribbean, and particularly Venezuela”, said the Vice-minister.

The situation that the Latin American country faces as a result of the economic, commercial and financial blockade by the United States was also explained; and a report on the results of the anti-drug fight in Venezuela was presented.

This, taking into account that on the western border it limits itself with the first drug producer in the world -Colombia- and on the other side with the largest consumer in all of Latin America, Brazil.

“We are not cataloged as a producer country, we do not have a high prevalence in consumption, as is the case in our neighboring Brazil. More than 400,000 preventive activities have been carried out in recent years, specifically in popular and community sectors”, reported the ONA director Alberto Matheus.

Likewise, he expressed the willingness of the Venezuelan authorities and institutions that have competence in this matter to collaborate together and face drug trafficking and consumption, which is considered one of the main public health problems.

Videoconferencia entre el director de la ONA, Alberto Matheus y la Directora Mundial de la División de Operaciones de la Oficina de las Naciones Unidas Contra la Droga y el Delito, Miwa Kato en compañia del viceministro Alexander Yánez