INTERVIEW: Policing one of the world’s ‘biggest drug trafficking corridors’UNA cross-border collaboration between law enforcement agencies in countries in Southeast Asia supported by the UN in Thailand is helping to tackle organized crime along one of the world’s “biggest drug trafficking corridors”. It’s one of the biggest drug trafficking corridors in the world. UN News/Runa A Jeremy Douglas, UNODC’s Regional Representative for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, at the Golden Triangle in Thailand. UN News: How does illegal trafficking in this relatively small area connect with the bigger transnational, regional, and global organized crime context? Jeremy Douglas: The organized crime trafficking organizations that dominate the Asia Pacific region, play a global role in the drug trade and other illicit activities.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 01, 2023 17:25 UTC