27 August 1996 SOC/NAR/745
UNITED NATIONS TO RECEIVE FIRST CONTRIBUTION OF DRUG DEALERS' ASSETS 19960827VIENNA, 27 August (UN Information Service) -- For the first time in its history, the United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP) will receive funds derived from assets confiscated from drug traffickers to support its world-wide campaign against illicit drugs.A Luxembourg fund consisting of assets forfeited in that country by drug dealers has agreed to provide $200,000 to a $1.1 million training programme for drug control officials from Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru. The programme, which is designed to meet the drug-control-related training needs of police, judges, prosecutors and customs officials of the four countries, is coordinated by UNDCP. Participants will be trained in such areas as control of money laundering and precursors, and in counter-narcotics field operations. In signing the financing agreement with the Fonds de Lutte contre le Trafic des Stup�fiants (Fund of the Fight against Drug Trafficking), UNDCP Executive Director Giorgio Giacomelli praised Luxembourg for its "generous and ground-breaking contribution", and expressed hope that in the current climate of budgetary constraints, other states will follow that country's example and provide additional contributions to the Programme from such sources. He noted that this was the first time a government had applied a provision of the 1988 United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances which encourages parties to contribute confiscated illicit proceeds to international organizations specializing in the fight against drugs. * *** *
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