COMBATING DRUG TRAFFICKING THROUGHOUT ASIA

Country Assigned: Nepal

Name of Delegates: Waraphan Eve Sumetawenunt
Part1: General Information about the issue
Drug trafficking is a global illicit trade involving the cultivation,
manufacture, distribution and sale of substances that are issued as part of drug
prohibition laws. At current levels, world heroin consumption and seizures
represent an annual flow of 430-450 tons of heroin into the global heroin
market. From the total, the opium from Myanmar and Laos yields some 50 tons.
While the rest of 380 tons of heroin and morphine is produced from Afghan
opium. About 5 tons are consumed and seized in Afghanistan. The remaining
bulk of 375 tons is trafficked worldwide via routes flowing into and through the
countries neighbouring Afghanistan. In 2008, global heroin seizures reached a
record level of 73.7 metric tons. Most of the heroin were seized in the Near and
Middle East and South-West Asia which considered as 39% of the global total.
The global increase in heroin seizures over the period 2006-2008 was driven by
continued burgeoning seizures in the Islamic Republic of Iran and Turkey. In
2008, those two countries was responsible for more than half of global heroin
seizures and registered, for the third consecutive year, the highest and second
highest seizures worldwide, respectively.
Part2: Country specific information about the issue
The area in between the Golden Triangle (Myanmar, Thailand and Laos)
and Golden Crescent (Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran), which the two are the
major global producers of psychotropic drugs, is the South Asian region. It has
been known as the transit route for psychotropic drugs. Nepals lacking of
research and technology to detect and track drug movement into Nepal made
Nepal an inability to stop drug trafficking into and through the country. The
country also considered as the drug producer and transiting country which
involved cannabis, heroin, marijuana, codeine-based cough syrups like
Phensedyl. The source was coming from Pakistan, Myanmar, India, and other
local productions, designated to India, and West Europe through land and air
routes. By modernising the law enforcement capabilities, drug trafficking can
be be reduced in Nepal, which will greatly benefit the country and other
nations. Nepals Narcotics Drug Control Law Enforcement Unit (NDCLEU) was
replaced by the Narcotic Control Bureau (NCB), effective November 29, 2012.
As far as supply routes used for the local consumption of drugs in Nepal are
concerned, peddlers smuggle drugs from Siliguri, Nawatanawa, Kanpur,
Gorakhpur, Rupadia, Gonda and other bordering towns in India and Sikkim.
From there, drugs moved into various urban and suburban areas of Nepal.

Those drug dealers also use luggage with false bottoms or conceal drugs in
various items such as photo frames, idols, and other personal effects.
Part3: Examples of issue in or involving country
Nepals basic drug law is the Narcotic Drugs Control Act, 2033, making
the cultivation, production, preparation, manufacture, export, import, purchase,
possession, sale, and consumption of most commonly abused drugs illegal.
Nepal is not a significant source or transit state for illegal drugs. Nepals
Narcotics Drug Control Law Enforcement Unit (NDCLEU) was replaced by the
Narcotic Control Bureau (NCB), effective November 29, 2012. Nepal is not a
producer of chemical precursors, but serves as a transit route for precursor
traffic between India and China. In the year of 2013, the overall number of
drug-related arrests increased, and overall drug seizures also rose. Between
January and September, police arrested 2,184 individuals for drug trafficking.
Hashish seizures in 2013 decreased 57.5 percent from the same period in
2012. Heroin seizures decreased 46.3 percent, but diverted pharmaceutical
drugs seizures were up 73.7 percent over the same period in 2012.
Solution
Since there is not much the problem of drug going on in the country,
there is nothing we can do right now.
Negotiate with neighboured countries about the issue.
Reinforce the immigration checkpoints; airport and around the border area.
Increase the strictness of the law mentioned about the illegal substance and

drug trafficking.