DUSHANBE, June 12, 2012, Asia-Plus — Lieutenant-General Rustam Nazarov, director of the Drug Control Agency (DCA) under the President of Tajikistan, is attending the 29th International Drug Enforcement Conference (IDEC) that has opened in Denpasar, Indonesia today.
According to the DCA press center, Tajik drug control chief will deliver a statement at the conference that will conclude on June 14 and hold a number of bilateral meetings with his counterparts from a number of countries.
IDEC was established in 1983 in an effort to bring together high-level drug law enforcement officials from throughout the Western Hemisphere. The principal purpose of the conference is to share drug-related information and to develop a coordinated approach to law enforcement efforts against international drug traffickers. Since its inception, IDEC has grown from a regional to a global forum, with over 100 countries in attendance.
The majority of the IDEC agenda is devoted to working group sessions where senior-level drug law enforcement officials identify common targets based on intelligence and coordinate regional and global attacks on these targets.
At each year’s IDEC, participants establish productive working relationships with their counterparts. Participants each year comment that IDEC is the most useful conference on drug-related matters, since it deals with implementation of coordinated and practical strategies. The goal is to destroy the command and control aspects of international drug trafficking and money laundering organizations.
