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PHASE IV and the Vienna Declaration PARIS PACT PARTNERS www.paris-pact.net >> PHASE IV and the Vienna Declaration PARIS PACT PARTNERS 58 PARIS PACT PARTNER COUNTRIES Afghanistan (Islamic Republic of) Denmark Latvia Serbia Albania Estonia Lithuania Slovakia Armenia Finland Luxembourg Slovenia Australia * France Macedonia (The former Yugoslav Spain Austria Georgia Republic of) Sweden Azerbaijan Germany Malta Switzerland Belarus Greece Moldova (Republic of) Tajikistan Belgium Hungary Montenegro Turkey Bosnia and Herzegovina India Netherlands Turkmenistan Bulgaria Iran (Islamic Republic of) Norway Ukraine Canada Ireland Pakistan (Islamic Republic of) United Arab Emirates * China (The People’s Republic of) * Italy Poland United Kingdom Croatia Japan Portugal United States of America Cyprus Kazakhstan Romania Uzbekistan Czech Republic Kyrgyzstan Russian Federation 23 PARIS PACT PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS • Central Asian Regional Information and Coordination • International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) Centre (CARICC) • Interpol (INTERPOL) • Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) • Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) • Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) • Council of Europe (CE) • Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) • Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) • Southeast European Law Enforcement Center (SELEC) • Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and • United Nations Aids Programme (UNAIDS) Terrorist Financing (EAG) * • United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) • European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction • United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (EMCDDA) (UNMIK) • European Police Office (EUROPOL) • United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) • European Union (EU) • World Customs Organization (WCO) • Financial Action Task Force (FATF) • World Health Organization (WHO) • GCC Criminal Information Center to Combat Drugs (GCC-CICCD) * * New Paris Pact Partners since the 3rd Ministerial Conference THE PARIS PACT INITIATIVE – WHAT IS IT? Since its inception in 2003, the broad international coalition known as the Paris Pact Initiative (PPI), made up today of 58 Russian Federation partner countries and 22 organizations, including UNODC, WESTERN Canada AND CENTRAL EASTERN has evolved into one of the most important frameworks for EUROPE EUROPE combatting illicit traffic in opiates originating in Afghanistan. SOUTH- EASTERN EUROPE CENTRAL ASIA United States Canada Pakistan As a well-establishedof America platform for consensus building, the Paris Pact Turkey Islamic China functions as an essential bridge between political commitment Republic Afghanistan of Iran at the highest international levels and the prioritization of Pakistan technical assistance interventions on the ground. It is a multi- Persian Gulf SOUTHERN layered initiativeMexico that defines and strengthens linkages between area & ASIA Myanmar Middle East various counter-narcotics actors at the global level. The partnership WESTERN AFRICA aims to define policy and provide stronger evidence for coordinated Ethiopia SOUTH-EASTERN action by all Paris Pact partners. ASIA Colombia Malaysia A particularly challenging period lies ahead in light of evolving Kenya international political agendas coupled with the Transformation United Flows of heroin from/to countries or regions Oceania Republic of Tan- (not actual tracking routes)* Decade for Afghanistan. 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For this reason, the “priority • 2009 Political Declaration and Plan of Action adopted by countries” identified by Paris Pact partners are primarily located 0 1,000 2,000 kmthe High-level Segment of the CND and the Joint Ministerial in West and Central Asia and South Eastern Europe to shed The designations employed and the presentationStatement of material on this of map 2014; do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning thelight legal status onof any counthowry, territor countriesy, city or area or of itssituated authorities, or concerning along the delimitation the ofnorthern its frontiers or boundaries and. Dotted Balkan line represents approximately the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir agreed upon by India and Pakistan. The nal status of Jammu and Kashmir has not yet been agreed upon by the parties. Final boundary between the Republic of Sudan the Republic of South Sudan has not yet been determined. A dispute exists between the Governments of Argentina and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland concerning sovereignty over the Falkland Islands (Malvinas). * The tracking routes represented on• the Special above map should Session be considered broadly of indicativethe andUnited based on data Nationsanalysis rather than de nitiveGeneral route outlines Assembly. Such analyses are based on upon on dataroutes related to ocial are drug seizuresaffected along the trac byking routesthe as wellmenace as ocial country reporof t andopiates. Annual Response InQuestionnaire responses. Routes may deviateto to other countries along the routes and there are numerous secondary ows that may not be represented. Sources: UNODC annual report questionnaire and individual drug seizure database. UNODC Afghan Opiate Trade Project. the world drug problem (2016); and the shifts in opiate trafficking, more recently focus is also placed on • Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). certain trajectories of the southern route. THE VIENNA DECLARATION The Third Ministerial Conference of the Paris Pact Partners was held in 2012 and attended by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The subsequent adoption of the conference’s outcome document, the Vienna Declaration, significantly changed the focus and strategic vision pushed forward under the aegis of the Paris Pact from 2012 to present. The Vienna Declaration reflects the partnership’s commitment to strengthening international and regional cooperation to stability in different regions of the world. The Vienna Declaration counter, in a balanced and comprehensive manner, the global embodies a ‘roadmap’ for Paris Pact partners, recognizing their challenge and threat opiates pose to international peace and common and shared responsibility. The Declaration guides the partnership on four interlinked pillars for enhanced cooperation: itiatives illar II: I Pillar I: Strengthening and implementing regional initiatives In P llic al it n Fi Pillar II: Detecting and blocking financial flows linked to illicit io n g a e n traffic in opiates R c i : a I Pillar III: Preventing the diversion of precursor chemicals used l r F a l in illicit opiates manufacturing in Afghanistan l o l i w P Pillar IV: Reducing drug abuse and dependence through a s comprehensive approach Vienna Declaration The strategic importance of the Vienna Declaration is h t further bolstered by: l a e • CND Resolution 55/11 (2012) which ‘calls upon Member H States, in cooperation with UNODC, the International d P n Narcotics Control Board (INCB) and other international i l a l a organizations, to promote the full implementation of the n r o I i Vienna Declaration adopted by the conference’; and I t I: n P e • CND Resolution 56/3 (2013) calling for strengthened inter- r v e P e c i Pr national cooperation in combatting illicit opiates originating urs lla g ors r IV: Dru in Afghanistan through continous and reinforced support to the Paris Pact Initiative. Progressively over the last two phases of the Initiative, Paris Pact The inception of the Vienna Declaration strengthened the expert meetings, commonly known as Expert Working Groups operational direction of the partnership’s expert meetings by (EWGs), underwent a structural transformation to a thematic instituting a balanced implementation of all four pillars. based focus. This shift reflects the partnership’s efforts at the The law enforcement related pillars of the Vienna Declaration technical level to take stock, identify
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