Colonel Pyakarski found his way to Vienna
- 25.03.2011, 20:33
Deputy Interior Minister of Belarus Aleh Pyakarski (Oleg Pekarski), blacklisted by the EU, has managed to break European barriers and find way into permeate d Vienna to the session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs.
The official website of the Interior Affairs Ministry reports about the great success of the criminal police chief.
On March 21 Pyakarski made a report on Belarus’ progress in the issue of drugs interdiction.
In particular, he shared information on trends in the sphere of illegal trafficking, which is characteristic for our country, and about the ways and methods of counteraction to this trend. Out of 50 drugs trafficking channels blocked last year in Belarus, about a half had been organized for trafficking of illicit drugs to the EU. “Creation of artificial borders between Belarus and the European Union would result in absence of a due interaction between the law-enforcing agencies and increase of drugs smuggling to the EU,” he stressed, adding that “our republic remains a reliable international partner in the field of preventing increase in drug use in the society.”
Besides, it had been stated that the Belarusian side is interested in studying the European experience of drug addicts treatment, prevention of drug use and decrease of its negative influence for the society.
On March 22, during the visit, a bilateral meeting with Yury Fedotov, Executive director for the UN United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) took place. A wide range of cooperation topics was mentioned on the list of questions for discussion: drugs control, human trafficking interdiction, cooperation in the framework of the International Educational Centre for personnel in the sphere of migration and human trafficking counteraction, and so on.
The press service of the Interior Affairs Ministry does not inform whether Pyakarski managed to tell his colleagues about detention of a Russian journalist Alyaksandr Lashmankin, who initially had been charged with drugs trafficking, and then imprisoned for three days “for use of obscenities.”