U.N. sees serious setbacks in anti-drugs fight

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U.N. sees serious setbacks in anti-drugs fight

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/u-n-sees-serious-setbacks-anti-drugs-fight-202002287--finance.html"><img src="http://l1.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/YYrUd2_ltV3Q36gY0zEgSw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-03-13T203338Z_1_CBREA2C1L4400_RTROPTP_2_CNEWS-US-UN-DRUGS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Afghan farmers work at a poppy field in Jalalabad province" align="left" title="Afghan farmers work at a poppy field in Jalalabad province" border="0" /></a>By Fredrik Dahl and Derek Brooks VIENNA (Reuters) - The global fight against narcotics has suffered serious setbacks, including record opium cultivation in Afghanistan and a surge of trafficking-related violence in Central America, the U.N. anti-drugs chief said on Thursday. Yury Fedotov also noted some successes, such as a shrinking cocaine market, at the start of a two-day meeting that will review implementation of a 2009 plan of action to combat the drugs problem before a special session of the U.N. General Assembly in 2016, amid a heated debate on the merits of drugs liberalization. Fedotov, executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), said reductions in the supply and demand for some drugs in one part of the world had been partly offset by increases elsewhere. &quot;We are strongly concerned about the vulnerability of some regions, notably West Africa and East Africa, to illicit drug trafficking,&quot; Fedotov said.</p><br clear="all"/>

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