UNDCP/EU PHARE

[dawnstar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

It was UNDCP's Richard Dickson who did his best to get Roman Franklin,
French pro-Suu Kyi journalist for Liberation kicked out of Burma last
September, and personally wrote the Liberation editors that the UNDCP
would not any more welcome Liberation writers. Hand in hand with
Slorc/SPDC, the UNDCP eager to do the generals any service to advance
their mutual interests.  ds


Julien Moe wrote:
> 
> 
> UNDCP/EU PHARE project launched against drug trafficking
> A new joint co-operation project to combat illicit drug trafficking and
> tighten border controls in south-eastern Europe has been launched last month
> in Sofia (Bulgaria) by high-level European officials.

> 
> The $7.6 million project codenamed PHARE, prepared by the UN International
> Drug Control Programme (UNDCP), the European Union (EU) and INTERPOL, aims
> to decrease the flow of heroin, cocaine and hashish from south-eastern to
> western Europe, and to cut supplies of these drugs transiting along the
> so-called 'Balkan Route'.
> 
> Two thirds of the project's budget will come from the European Union (EU),
> in the frame of its PHARE programme, while the remainder is expected from
> UNDCP donors.
> 
> This project is receiving the assistance of Europol and the World Customs
> Organization (WCO), and will concern the eastern European countries of
> Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav
> Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, and
Romania.
> 
> Project UNDCP/PHARE will give police and customs officials of these
> countries advanced training in profiling and selectivity techniques, and
> provide them with modern drug detection equipment as well as drug-scenting
> dogs. Special measures will target large consignments of drugs hidden in sea
> containers.
> 
> Sophisticated criminal data analysis and telecommunication systems to aid
> police investigations will be set up by the General Secretariat of INTERPOL.
> The implementation phase will last about two years and is planned to start
> during the first quarter of 1999.
>