SR's Message Present at Two UK Fairs

SR´s Message Gets Heard

On 19th of July 2009 at the “Colombianamente Carnival” at Lambeth and on the 2nd of August 2009 at the” Carnival del Pueblo” at Southwark the Metropolitan Police Ibero American Association (MPIAA) approached the community together with SCD7, the Drugs Directorate, SOCA, the Home Office, the Ibero-American Non Governmental Organisations and with the Bolivian, Colombian, Mexico and Peruvian consulates and launched a Cocaine Awareness Campaign.

All together, they created a greater understanding of the effects of cocaine use. On 12th of September 2009 at  Lordship Rec Community Festival at Haringey the MPIAA will approach the community and will distribute as part of the campaign booklets provided by the Home Office “Frank Campaign” outlining the real effects of the drug.

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Colombian Vice President presents Shared Responsibilty initiative in Czech University of Life Sciences

Monday, 15 December 2008 00:00

Colombia’s Vice President, Francisco Santos, visited Prague on December 11 and 12, on an official state visit during which he met with high level officials to advance specific topics of mutual interest, such as environmental protection, drug prevention strategies, commerce and immigration.

As regards drug prevention, the Colombian government presented the Shared Responsibility initiative, which works to generate awareness about the environmental consequences of coca cultivation and cocaine production, encouraged by cocaine consumption, on Colombia’s richly biodiverse ecosystems.

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Editorial: This is our problem too

Written by The Independent (UK) Wednesday, 19 November 2008 00:00

No supply chain is quite as lethal and destructive as that of cocaine. That was the message from the Colombian Vice-President, Francisco Santos Calderon, at a meeting of the Association of Chief Police Officers in Belfast yesterday.

Mr Calderon informed his audience that drug production is causing environmental disaster in Colombia, with illegal cultivators destroying 200,000 hectares of forest each year to produce the coca plant. But his purpose was not merely to draw our attention to this crime, but to ram home our own complicity in it. "If you snort a gram of cocaine," he said, "you are destroying four square metres of pristine rainforest."

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Colombian Vice President brings drug prevention message to Belfast school

Friday, 14 November 2008 00:00

Colombian Vice President brings drug prevention message to Belfast school

Colombia’s Vice President, Francisco Santos, will visit Belfast this November 17 and 18 in order to participate in the annual ACPO Drugs Conference, in which the Vice President will present his country’s Shared Responsibility initiative. Said initiative works to generate awareness about the environmental consequences of coca cultivation and cocaine production, encouraged by cocaine consumption, on Colombia’s richly biodiverse ecosystems.

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