You have done great work in seizing drugs and precursors, prosecuting drug-related crimes and seizing weapons and ammunition.

Dealing with those things and training officers to the new approach and the new weapons and the new drugs that we're seeing today.

It is of the greatest concern that, more than one year later, the seized cocaine has not been destroyed.

The progress that Laos has made is quite momentous when we consider that until the mid-1990s, it was the third-largest producer of illicit opium in the world.

We have a collective responsibility to ensure that the poorest of the poor are not the ones who pay the price for successes in drug control. The progress that Laos has made is quite momentous.

The United Nations would like to invite the government to take very tough measures against those governors, or those officials, whether civilians, military police, who are involved in cultivation or refining or trafficking. We wish the government persevered in making its own legal instruments available to the international community, so that traffickers can be extradited.