Xinhua News – China’s News
January 17, 2006
Drug control authorities from Latin America, the United States and the Caribbean began a study on Tuesday intending to set up a regional office to fight drug trafficking, according to reports from El Salvador.
Defense and interior ministry officials, and police officers from 18 nations in the Americas were meeting in the capital San Salvador for a three-day conference.
Trafficking "has a transnational character which increases global insecurity and altering the global economy," Otto Romero, Salvadoran defense minister, was quoted as saying at the opening ceremony.
It is also linked to terrorism and organized crime, and weakens the structures of the state as well as the society, especially the most important democratic institutions," he added.
Romero said that defense ministers of the American countries reached an agreement over the plan for a regional office at a December meeting in Colombia. Enditem
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