Poppy Power

Afghan farmer in poppy field.

98), the Government of Mexico, on 15 February 2005, submitted the text of a proposed revised version of article 7 for consideration by the Working Group.

Is Mexican society violent by nature?

That sense is covered in Mexican legislation.

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.

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

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

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Mr. Bellenger (France) expressed support for the position taken by the Mexican delegation.

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

Currently, the Mexican legal system is incompatible with the establishment of an international criminal jurisdiction.

But, given the close linkages between Mexican production and US consumption (which is now sputtering again), any resilience in the Mexican economy could be short lived.

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.

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The letter and spirit of the Declaration are consistent with Mexican legislation and jurisprudence on the subject.

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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 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.

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

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10. Welcomes the efforts of the Transitional Authority to respect fully the international obligations of Afghanistan with regard to narcotic drugs, and calls upon it to strengthen further its efforts to eradicate the annual poppy crop

If active intervention on law enforcement coupled with effective alternative livelihoods assistance is not provided on an urgent basis, they may return to cultivating poppy.

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He maintains that persecution of members of Zapatista groups and of groups supporting them takes place throughout the whole country, contrary to the assertions by the State party.

This agreement includes including collaborating or not with the Taliban, cooperating with the Coalition forces, accepting or refusing poppy eradication in a village.

Their only means of survival was to accept the leadership of local chiefs connected with drug trafficking and to take up poppy growing, which was highly labour intensive.

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Mexican President Felipe Calderón has never wanted to entangle himself in Latin American disputes and ideological confrontations.

In the long run, the answer undoubtedly lies in the transformation of the Mexican left, and partly also of the Mexican right.