Kuwait calls for unifying efforts to combat drugs
VIENNA, March 15, (Agencies): Kuwait stressed the importance of unifying international efforts to fight narcotic drugs across the world.
This came in a statement by Chief of Kuwait’s General Directorate for Drug Control Colonel Mohammad Qabazard to KUNA on Tuesday on the sidelines of the 66th session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs.
The annual conference gathered delegates from more than 120 countries.
Col. Qabazard stressed Kuwait’s commitment to the provisions of international law and the treaties related to combating drugs.
He indicated that there is a firm tendency in Kuwait to combat this deadly scourge and protect society, lauding great importance paid by the country’s officials to combat drugs, especially through continuous coordination with all brotherly and friendly countries.
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Kuwait has harnessed all potential and made joint efforts to combat drugs that resulted in seizing a large number of drugs in 2020, he said, stressing the importance of exchanging information between the Gulf, Arab, regional and international anti-drug agencies.
Confronting drugs requires boosting social, economic, health and cultural cooperation, he stated.
A Kuwaiti delegation is partaking in the 66th session that is led by Kuwait’s Ambassador to Austria and its permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna Talal Al-Fassam.
Meanwhile, Director-General of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime Ghada Waly warned against increasing risks of drugs across the globe. She stressed the necessity of addressing challenges caused by this scourge.
Liqour seized: Personnel from the residence investigations department raided an apartment in Al-Ahmadi which had been turned into a booze factory to manufacture alcohol and arrested six unidentified persons, reports Al-Rai daily.
The Public Relations and Security Media Department of the Ministry of Interior stated that 1,100 bottles containing intoxicants, equipment, tools for manufacturing alcohol and raw materials were seized from the main culprit and five others.
The suspects and the contraband have been handed over to the General Depart for Drugs Control.
Ban on car imports: First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Interior and Acting Minister of Defense Sheikh Talal Khaled Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah directed today, Wednesday, to activate a decision on Council of Ministers No. (78) of 2015 ending the immediate procedures for all vehicles imported from abroad at the Nuwaiseeb port at the present time before entering Kuwait from next Sunday.
The General Department of Relations and Security Media at the Ministry of Interior said in a press statement that Sheikh Talal Al-Khaled ordered the implementation of the decision, in cooperation between the Ministry of Interior represented by the General Department of Traffic Authority , Ministry of Commerce and Industry, General Administration of Customs, Public Authority for Industry, Kuwait Municipality, Environment Public Authority and Ministry of Communications at the same time.
The statement added that the decision will be implemented at the Salmi port and Shuwaikh port within two months and operate around the clock, in order to facilitate citizens to complete all procedures for clearance of their vehicles as quickly as possible.
9 illegals arrested: The Public Relations and Security Media Department of the Ministry of Interior stated the Residence Affairs Investigation Department have arrested nine violators of the residence and labor laws in Hawally and referred them to the concerned authority, reports Al-Rai daily.
The daily added, those arrested are of various nationalities.