Baghdad Governor: Action plan to combat drugs and psychotropic substances

Baghdad-INA
 
Baghdad Governor Abdul Muttalib Al-Alawi announced on Wednesday, the governorate's readiness to support and assist in combating drugs and psychotropic substances, while recommending developing an action plan to reduce this scourge.
 
Al-Alawi said in a speech during the fourth national conference, under the slogan "Combating drugs is a national responsibility" to discuss efforts to combat drugs in the capital, Baghdad, attended by the reporter of the Iraqi News Agency (INA): "The phenomenon of the spread of drugs is dangerous and its economic, social, security, health and psychological impact on Iraqi society after Iraq was described as a passage for these substances, not a consumer, but it has become a consumer and warns of great and severe danger," indicating that "there is international and local interest in combating this scourge and getting rid of its social and economic effects and the obstruction it causes to the development process in all its forms."
 
He added: "Since 1961, the United Nations has held a conference to deal with narcotic substances because there is a medical and scientific use for these substances, which must be dealt with it," noting that "what is being fought is drug trafficking, and treaties and agreements were concluded for this purpose."
 
Al-Alawi added, "Baghdad hosted two international conferences sponsored by the Iraqi government and organized by the Ministry of Interior, and today this conference is being held in the presence of the relevant committee in parliament, and it is the fourth conference, and we hope that the outcomes of this conference will be strategic, from which an integrated vision and an action plan will emerge that depends on the tangible results it achieves, and that the work will be integrated and all parties will participate in it in coordination and integration to combat the phenomenon that targets our most important resource, which is the Iraqi capital distinguished by its efficiency and capacity."
 
He said: "If this phenomenon spreads, it will cause us great harm in our most important resources," noting that "Baghdad Governorate is ready to support with all its capabilities and resources in every effort to combat drugs and psychotropic substances, and the decisions resulting from this conference will be of interest to us and will be taken to implement it."