IRNA Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Ghada Fathi Waly hailed the efforts made by Iran in line with fighting narcotics trafficking and the related crimes. Waly made the remarks in a meeting with Iran's deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs Mohsen Baharvand. Baharvand is currently on a visit ...

IRNA Global fight against illicit drugs will not have favorable outcome without Iran's contribution, Iranian Director General for International Affairs of Drug Control Headquarters Amir Abbas Lotfi said on Sunday. Amir Abbas Lotfi made the remarks in an exclusive interview with IRNA. Lotfi made it clear that any anti-narcotic measures in the ...

Tasnim - Irans permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna cautioned that the policy of certain countries to decriminalize and legalize drug use is undermining international anti-narcotics efforts. Any approach with the purpose of decriminalizing and legalizing certain types of drugs would undermine international efforts to ...

MNA An Iranian envoy and a high ranking UN official discussed the situation around extraditing Iranian financial criminals who have been harbored in Europe and America. Iran's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the international organizations in Vienna Kazem Gharibabadi met and held talks with Executive Director of the United Nations Office ...

IRNA - The Iranian National Center for Addiction Studies (INCAS) will be officially designated as the Regional Capacity Building and Research Centre in an opening ceremony to be held on 18 December 2019. According to the Monday report by the United Nations Information Center (UNIC) in Tehran, designation of the center as the Regional Capacity Building ...

IRNA - The Vienna-based United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime on Thursday acknowledged Iranian campaign against drug-trafficking, saying that Iran ranks top in the international campaign. According to the UNODC annual report for 2019 on the situation of narcotic drugs in the world, Iran seized 631 tons of opium in 2017, ranked first in the world....

MNA Irans permanent envoy to UN and other Vienna-based intl. organizations, Kazem Gharibabadi, met and held talks with Executive Director of United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Yuri Fedotov, in the Austrian capital on Tuesday. The meeting aimed at exchanging views on ways to boost joint cooperation in already defined projects or the ones ...

Tasnim The representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Iran praised the countrys progress in its campaign against crimes and corruption. In a speech at the Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (TCCIMA), Alexander Fedulov said this year, the UNODC celebrated the 15th anniversary of the adoption ...

IRNA - International cooperation in countering cybercrime is a key and determining element and Iran is ready to cooperate with other countries in this regard, head of Iran's Cyberspace Police Production and Information Exchange Department said. General Kamal Hadianfar, in a meeting with Head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) ...

MNA In a meeting with UNODCs Executive Director Yury Fedeotv, Irans interior minister stressed the need for further attention on behalf of UNODC to the Joint Planning Cell (JPC) in the fight against illegal drugs. Irans Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli held a meeting with Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime ...

IRNA -- Acting Head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Tehran Kaveh Moradi said here on Wednesday that the Islamic Republic of Iran has signed important conventions like war against drugs and crime and is pioneer in this field. He made the remarks in a meeting dubbed 'International Judicial cooperation in extradition of prisoners in the ...

Tasnim|Mohammad Hasanzadeh: Tehran International Conference on Cooperation against Illicit Drugs and Related Organized Crimes opened in the Iranian capital on Monday in a ceremony attended by Iranian Interior Minister Rahmani Fazli and UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Executive Director Yury Fedotov.     ...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- The Islamic Republic of Iran and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) signed a cooperation agreement on fighting drug trafficking. Iranian Interior Minister Abdulreza Rahmani-Fazli and UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov inked an agreement in Vienna at the end of partners of Afghanistan and neighboring countries ...

By supporting a UN anti-drug programme operating in Iran, Denmark may be helping Iranian authorities arrest and execute suspected drug users and smugglers Questions have been raised over Denmarks support of a UN anti-drug programme that could be indirectly leading to executions in Iran. Denmark voluntarily supports the United Nations Office on ...