Poppy Power

Afghan farmer in poppy field.

June 1996, Reykjavík, Iceland.

The eradication of poppy fields should be seen in this larger context.

Putting pressure on the poppy farmers in Afghanistan alone will not solve the problem.

Mr. Hannesson (Iceland) I am taking the floor briefly to express Iceland's continuing support for the rebuilding of Afghanistan.

Considerably more assistance needs to reach farmers directly as a disincentive for poppy cultivation.

Iceland joined the CBSS in 1995.

Action against corruption assistance to States in capacity building with a view to facilitating the entry into force and subsequent implementation of the United Nations Convention against Corruption

Mr. Hannesson (Iceland) Iceland welcomes the Security Council's decision to deliberate on the important issue of children and armed conflict.

Thanks to its Anti Narcotics Force, Pakistan was a poppy free country.

Subsequently, Iceland joined in sponsoring the draft resolution.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has undertaken a rapid assessment survey of the poppy planting trends, to be published shortly.

The next speaker on my list is the representative of Iceland, to whom I give the floor.

His Excellency Mr. Halldór Ásgrimsson, Prime Minister of the Republic of Iceland

Iceland intends to continue to play its role in that respect.

But destroying poppy crops has been turning Afghan farmers against NATO.

We have also communicated our agreement to take up a pilot project on community development to wean farmers away from poppy cultivation.

Unfortunately, Iceland's ideas about GMA, including, in particular, as regards its scope, and those of States that have ambitions for GMA well beyond what Iceland considers appropriate, have so far not been reconcilable.

Some states (Iceland and Hungary) are clearly bankrupt.

In contrast to Latvia, Iceland let its currency, the krona, devalue massively.

Nor is Iceland a poster child for the claim that avoiding austerity works.

Geir H. Haarde, the Foreign Minister of Iceland, succeeded him on 15 June 2006.

For many years, Iceland has advocated a more representative and legitimate Council.

Iceland actually has repeatedly stated that those changes are long overdue.

Iceland s superior economic performance should thus not be attributed to the devaluation of the krona, but rather to global warming, which pushed the herring farther North, into Icelandic waters.

It does end eventually, as it has just for starters in Iceland, Ireland, and Greece.

Iceland has also participated in the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan and the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.

The President The next speaker on my list is the representative of Iceland, to whom I give the floor.

In addition, the Icelandic people as a whole have shown solidarity with the victims of the tsunami.

Welcoming Cape Verde, Iceland, Luxembourg, Madagascar and Qatar to membership in the Committee on Information,

(For Iceland in the fall of 2008, for example, the only alternative to IMF financing was to eat locally obtained goods, which mostly means fish.)

In terms of cultivation eradication, around 5,100 hectares, or 5 per cent of the total crop, have been eradicated.

As for the issue of drugs, we welcome the counter narcotics measures recently taken by Kabul, which helped to reduce opium cultivation this year.

The couple moved to Iceland in 1968, and Ashkenazy became an Icelandic citizen in 1972.

Albania, Cameroon, Canada, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Iceland, Nicaragua, Solomon Islands.

Iceland therefore stands fully behind the Secretary General in his efforts to modernize the management and to strengthen the Organization.

In the view of Iceland, the effectiveness of the Agreement depends primarily on its broad ratification and implementation.

The Alliance has promised to see the job through. So if it abandons the job now, leaving the country to poverty, prejudice, and poppies, what then will happen?

So it is smarter to go after the heroin bosses and their foreign networks, and in the meantime buy the poppy crop from farmers to destroy it.

In the second sentence, add Iceland to the list of additional sponsors of the draft resolution

Iceland has actively encouraged an open discussion on marine pollution, an issue of international concern.

Indeed, the international community s methods of fighting the insurgency and eradicating poppy crops have actually helped the insurgents gain power.

Consider Iceland, which suffered bitterly following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008.

Since the 1995 world championship in Iceland, the competition has been every two years.