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Measures aimed at improving the governments' capacity to use the law to combat the problem of drugs and the drug-related activities of organized crime, particularly: money laundering; chemical precursors and substances, and arms trafficking.
The Center for Legal Development and Cooperation in Central America, a program being conducted in cooperation with the United Nations' Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD), launched its activities on June 1 with a three-year program. CICAD is financing one-third of the cost, and the United Nations International Drug Control Program (UNIDCP) two-thirds.
A joint working group consisting of the Government of Bolivia, the UNIDCP, the Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar and OAS/CICAD has drafted a project proposal to create the Center for Legal Cooperation and Development for South America. The Government of Bolivia and the UNIDCP have the proposal under consideration at the present time. The project's activities would begin in 1995 with an evaluation of needs.
Discussions have also been undertaken with the UNIDCP on a Center for the Caribbean, based on a cooperative program between the UNIDCP and the Faculty of Law of the University of the West Indies (UWI).
Controlling the laundering of assets: Continuing the efforts to promote the adoption and application of the Model Regulations through subregional policy seminars and training courses conducted between 1992 and 1994 in cooperation with the Financial Action Task Force of the G-7 (FATF) and the UNIDCP, the plan is that CICAD's Group of Experts will meet again in 1995 to evaluate the progress made thus far toward achieving the objectives and to decide what the next phase of CICAD's work will be. Two surveys have been circulated among the member countries, the first to evaluate the application of the Model Regulations, and the second to consider the measures necessary to facilitate enforcement of laws against illegal drug trafficking.
Policing for chemical precursors and substances: Adoption and enforcement of the Model Regulations will continue to be encouraged, in keeping with the recommendations of the Second Meeting of CICAD's Group of Experts, held in May 1994 (see CICAD/PRECUR/doc.27/94, rev. 1). One of the most important recommendations is to draft the provisions that will be included in cooperation agreements between the OAS member States and the European Commission on preventing the diversion of precursors and other chemical substances. This issue was singled out as the subject of a meeting with the European Commission in December 1994.
Training on port security: CICAD conferred with officials of the OAS Inter-American Port and Harbor Conference to examine the idea of jointly sponsoring seminars on port security, including the necessary controls to stop drugs, the laundering of assets, arms traffic and explosives and the diversion of precursors and other chemical substances. The seminars would target middle-level administrators of ports throughout the hemisphere. The proposed plan involves three seminars for 1995-1996: one in Barbados for the Caribbean; another in Chile for South America; and a third in Mexico for Central America.
Arms and explosives: At the second seminar on preventing the illegal traffic in arms and explosives, which took place in Bogota, Colombia, in April, terms of reference were prepared so that a group of experts might draft model regulations on the subject. A third seminar is planned in Venezuela for the second quarter of 1995, before the next meeting of that group of experts. Four meetings are planned to prepare a draft which will then be submitted to CICAD for study and approval.
Control measures: In cooperation with the JIFE, to provide training in UNIDCP and CICAD control methods to those in charge of overseeing the movement, sale and elimination of controlled substances, chemical precursors and substances and the devices and materials involved in the processing thereof.
Police training: During the second quarter of 1994, a report commissioned by CICAD on long-term police training was completed. In July, a supplementary report was presented containing the elements of a training strategy. The plan is to hold a meeting that brings together the major police organizations and institutions interested in training their personnel, such as the UNIDCP, INTERPOL, the Customs Cooperation Council (CCC), the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) to study approaches that might be used to implement police training on a wide scale.
A proposal has been submitted for a specific police training project in Honduras that would use Argentine police instructors and technical assistance from other member States. This idea is the result of a short-term Mexican initiative to assist the Central American governments in their efforts to combat drug trafficking.
A meeting to study the development and subsequent applications of the Model Regulations, in Mexico during the first quarter of 1995 (4 days). During the third quarter of 1994, two seminars were held in cooperation with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), in Buenos Aires and in Quito.