Interior Minister Alejandro Poire Calls for Broadened Talks on Drug Issues Rocio Zayas - Rumbo de Mexico
go to original October 18, 2012

Mexico's Interior Minister Alejandro Poiré (TheNews)

Interior Minister Alejandro Poiré this week expressed the need for new approaches toward the country’s long-standing drug issues. Poiré suggested reframing the conversation to include health and market problems and to look at how the international community might coordinate to fight global organized crime networks.

At the Sixth Conference of Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNODC) in Vienna, Austria, Poiré said, “There is a need to broaden the discussion of the drug problem, resulting in a deeper, head-on analysis that would recognize the issues of health, the market and security, as appropriate for each region and each country.” He also proposed the creation of an international conference where efficient public policy based on scientific studies that is tailored to distinct nations could be developed.

Poiré said that Mexico is aware of the need for regional and international cooperation in battling transnational organized crime, and recognized the Palermo Protocols, three agreements adopted by the UNODC in 2000, as the ideal instruments for coordinating action in the global community.

He also highlighted the Hemispheric Action Plan Against Transnational Organized Crime, adopted by the member countries of the Organization of American States in Mexico on Sep. 20, 2012. This agreement establishes operative norms for policy, fiscal, and intelligence coordination of the participating countries in combatting organized crime.

The interior minister also called for work to begin on the establishment of a “political-technical base that will endow the participating nations with technological capacity and coordination mechanisms,” and emphasized the important work of UNODC in its creation.

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