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I welcome the discussion on drugs. They constitute a serious problem but bureaucratic efforts have not curtailed the activities of dealers who sell drugs at schools, centres of higher education, housing estates and other public places, and it is unlikely that they will do so in the future.
In 1998 a special session of the General Assembly of the United Nations set itself the goal of creating a drug-free world in the course of 10 years. Subsequent years saw the publication of many recommendations, regulations, decisions, reports and a Green Paper. We have today voted on yet another draft resolution. We would do well to reflect on what all this has achieved. I am sorry to have to say that never in the history of mankind have drugs been as easily obtainable as they now are. All that remains is for it to be possible to order them through the Internet.
I voted in favour of the resolution because I support any measure to combat drugs. Nonetheless, I should like to point out that until we isolate producers from distributors and introduce radical changes to the penal code to create an effective deterrent for people who make a living out of drugs, this problem will not be reduced. On the contrary, it will increase in magnitude."@en1
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