Safe Mekong Project Signatories Discuss Narcotics Suppression
The Thai government has also implemented a measure to reduce the demand for drugs in the country. This comes as new producers keep on emerging regardless of seizures. They will keep doing so as long as there is demand.
Signatories of the Safe Mekong Coordination Project have met to discussed suppression of substances used to produce narcotics. Some illicit producers have turned to chemicals instead of opium to produce methamphetamine.
Thailand’s Minister of Justice Somsak Thepsutin officiated at the senior officials meeting of signatories to the Mekong Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Drug Control. Namely China, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
The meeting was held at the Royal Orchid Sheraton hotel in Bangkok.
