UN urges anti-drug measures for both Afghanistan and consumer countries

29 July 2011 – Government representatives from some 30 countries in the Asia-Pacific region today sought United Nations assistance in their efforts to have bottlenecks to intra-regional trade and investment removed to foster growth, particularly in the poorest nations. At the end of a three-day meeting in Bangkok of the Committee on Trade and Investment, a regional policymakers’ forum convened biannually by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), delegates als .... [More]