Coca surveys in Bolivia, Colombia and Peru opium poppy surveys in Afghanistan, the Lao People's Democratic Republic and Myanmar and a cannabis survey in Morocco.

They also reported that their alternative development programmes provided for participatory approaches and took into account gender issues, the poorest and most vulnerable groups, environmental concerns and drug demand reduction.

In conclusion, the analysis of the replies for the third reporting period indicate that the main countries affected by illicit opium poppy and coca bush cultivation continued to make good progress towards the significant reduction and elimination of illicit crops.

The imposition of the death penalty was restricted to murder or rape with aggravating circumstances, terrorism, biocide or genocide.

They went on to spring the trap of Operation Uranus, the code name for the planned encirclement and annihilation of the German Sixth Army and Fourth Panzer Army.

Alarm bells are ringing in different capitals around the world in Spain, Britain, Turkey, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia as we have all witnessed.

Remember Angola s civil war, the Khmer Rouge s massacre of millions of Cambodians, Rwanda s tribal wars, the bloody disintegration of Yugoslavia, and the extermination of Christians in Southern Sudan.

For the third reporting period, 22 countries (24 per cent of respondents) reported having systems enabling the monitoring and quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the impact of programmes for alternative development and eradication of illicit crops.

The secessionist regimes in Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali region of south Ossetia had seized the territories of those regions and carried out ethnic cleansing and genocide, forcing 250,000 Georgian survivors from their birthplaces.

Taking into account that systematic discrimination, disregard or exclusion are often among the root causes of conflict, the present decision intends to strengthen the capacity of the Committee to detect and prevent at the earliest possible stage developments in racial discrimination that may lead to violent conflict and genocide.