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Mr President, the Commission shares the honourable Member’s desire to provide adequate support for the Afghan people, of whose difficult situation we are all well aware. The significant assistance which the Community had been giving to the Afghan population has increased recently.
The Community finances actions in the following areas: emergency aid, aid to displaced persons, aid for food safety, human rights and landmines. The assistance is implemented speedily through a wide network of non-governmental organisations. In this way, we contribute to reducing the dependence on poppy cultivation of the people who receive this aid. The food safety programme is of particular importance, since it provides seeds, tools and all the necessary elements for alternative crops.
Obviously, no donor has been able to offer assistance in the field of compliance with the law in order to combat drug trafficking in Afghanistan, owing to the government of that country. However, the Commission has supported programmes in this sector, in countries which play an essential role in the heroin trafficking routes towards the European Union, such as the States of Central Asia: Iran, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Russia, the Ukraine, Moldavia, Belarus, Bulgaria and Rumania.
It is still unknown whether, given the current changing situation, the significant reduction in poppy cultivation observed by the UNIDCP 2000/2001 will continue and, furthermore, according to the United Nations, the trafficking in refined heroin from Afghanistan does not appear to be diminishing. According to the estimates of this United Nations body, the stocks accumulated before the crisis would keep the European market supplied for the next three to four years."@en1
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