Vietnam enhance cooperation on drug control with Mekong sub-regional countries

• Deputy Minister Le Quy Vuong works with Thanh Hoa Province on drug prevention and combat
• MPS reviews implementation of Law on drug prevention and combat
• Vietnam-Laos-Cambodia adopt Joint Statement on fostering anti-drug cooperation

Deputy Minister Le Quy Vuong and delegates at the meeting.

The Vietnam's inter-ministerial delegation includes representatives from the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Finance.

The meeting was a activity within the framework of the MOU 1993 on cooperation in drug control among the six Mekong sub-regionalcountries(Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, China and Vietnam) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

On behalf of the Vietnam's delegation, Deputy Minister Le Quy Vuong delivered an important speech at the meeting, highlighting Vietnam’s efforts in preventing and controlling illicit drugs. 

Deputy Minister Le Quy Vuong also made some recommendations to boost the cooperation in the coming time, saying that all member countries should continue to consolidate and step up the implementation of the current bilateral and multilateral cooperation mechanisms on drug prevention and control.

At the meeting, delegates adopted the Bangkok Joint Declaration on Drug Issues and the "Eleventh Regional Action Plan" of sub-regional countries on joining efforts to address drug-related issues.

On this occasion, the sub-regional countries also held a meeting and agreed to launch anintensive campaign to simultaneously attack crimes along the borderlines of the six member countries. The campaign is expected to run three months, starting from the end of December 2019.

* On the sidelines of the meeting, Deputy Minister Le Quy Vuong had a meeting with Mr. Andy Tsang Wai-hung, Deputy Director of the China’s National Narcotics Control Commission.

Deputy Minister Le Quy Vuong  and Mr. Tang Wei Hung at the meeting.

At the meeting, the two sides together reviewed and assessed the drug-trafficking situation on the shared borderline and results of cooperation in prevention and fight against crimes in general and drug-related crime in particular over the past time. They also discussed out directions for the cooperation in the coming time.