Bangkok--Oct 8--UNODC
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) invites you to the Launch of "Myanmar Opium Survey 2004"on Monday, 11 October 2004 at 14:00 hrs. at the Theatre Room, United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC), Bangkok.
Myanmar is the main opium producer in Southeast Asia. Despite its reputation as a leading producer, Myanmar has demonstrated a steady and remarkable reduction in opium poppy cultivation. Together with the parallel decline in opium cultivation in Laos, this declining trend, if sustained, signals a potential end to more than a century of opium production in the Golden Triangle. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Myanmar Government jointly conducted the 2004 Opium Poppy Survey in Myanmar through the use of satellite images, ground surveys verifying satellite images and rapid assessment surveys. The results of the 2004 opium poppy survey will be released on 11 October 2004. The Survey will be launched simultaneously in Yangon, Myanmar and Bangkok, Thailand.
The event will feature the presentations by Mr.Yngve Danling, Officer-in-Charge, UNODC Regional Centre for East Asia and the Pacific, Mr.Sanong Chinnanon, Alternative Development Coordinator, UNODC Regional Centre for East Asia and the Pacific and Mr.Jean-Luc Lemahieu, Representative, UNODC Country Office for Myanmar.
The advertisement and registration form is attached herewith for your attention. It would be appreciated if you could confirm your participation to UNODC by 10:00 hrs. of 11 October 2004.
For further information please contact
Mr. Fumio Ito, Tel: 02-288-2537, Fax : 02-281-2129
E-mail: [email protected] End.
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