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[email protected] Website: www.odccp.org/uzbekistan CONFERENCE REPORT Prepared by UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Regional Office for Central Asia, Tashkent with the assistance of Laura Rio UN Interagency Cooperation Adviser December 2002 The UN Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention (ODCCP) was renamed the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UN ODC) as of October 1, 2002. As this conference was held in June 2002, the name ODCCP is used throughout the body of this report. Disclaimer The opinions expressed in this report are those of the authors only and do not necessarily reflect the views of ODCCP, WHO/EURO, the Government of Austria, USAID and OSCE. In the translation of the proceedings of the conference outmost care has been taken not to deviate from the original text as much as possible. This however has proved at times a difficult task. ODCCP is not responsible for any misinterpretation/error that may have arisen from the translation and wishes to refer interested readers to the original language of the presentations and speeches (as indicated in the foot note). TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary ...............................................................................................................6 1. Introduction ....................................................................................................................