Myanmar to hold drug meeting

Myanmar to hold drug meeting

YANGON (AFP): Ministers from Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam will gather in Yangon next month for a UN- sponsored meeting on regional efforts to stamp out the drug trade, officials said on Tuesday.

The six nations signed an agreement in 1995 to work together to fight narcotics trafficking by reducing demand, boosting law enforcement and encouraging crop substitution.

Their home affairs ministers meet every two years to discuss the progress of cross-border drug control projects and to approve new strategies devised by the United Nations Drug Control Program (UNDCP).

The UNDCP said China was sending its Vice Minister of Public Security Bai Jing Fu to the meeting, which would be hosted by Myanmar's Lt. Gen. Khin Nyunt, first secretary of the ruling junta.