On May 27, 2015 in the margins of the High-level International Conference on the problem of drug threat entitled “Consolidation of the international anti-drug cooperation” the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Parviz Davlatzoda has received the Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Aldo Lale-Demoz.
The two sides have expressed satisfaction with the level of cooperation between the Republic of Tajikistan and the UNODC in fight against illegal drug trafficking and crime and stressed the need for increased cooperation in dealing with these challenges in the framework of the new UNODC Programme for Central Asia for 2015-2019 years.
Both sides emphasized the holding of a High-level International Conference on the problem of drug threat in Dushanbe on the eve of the Special Session of the UN General Assembly on the drug problem in 2016 as a timely event.