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STORY: VIENNA / MEXICO DRUG VIOLENCE
TRT: 1.53
SOURCE: UNODC
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH / SPANISH / NATS
DATELINE: 11-12 MARCH 2009, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
11 MARCH 2009, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
1. Wide shot, exterior “M” building of the Vienna International Centre
12 MARCH 2009, VIENNA, AUSTRIA
2. Wide shot, conference tables
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Eduardo Medina Mora Icaza, Attorney General of Mexico:
“The national priorities for Mexico in fighting organized crime and drug trafficking is to cease the level of economic fire power, and intimidation power, that these groups have accumulated in these last 20 years in our region, particularly in our country.”
4. Med shot, delegate
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Eduardo Medina Mora Icaza, Attorney General of Mexico:
“If we could substantially reduce the supply of assault rifles from the United States into Mexico that end in the hands of these criminal groups, our circumstances would be suddenly totally different than it is today. If we were to identify routes, procedures, modus operandi, specific geographic locations in which the cash proceeds from the sale of drugs of organizations in the United States, which is crimes committed in the United States is transported into the border, and then transshipped through the border into Mexico, we would advance very much as well.”
6. Cutaway podium with banner Commission on Narcotic Drugs
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Eduardo Medina Mora Icaza, Attorney General of Mexico:
“This is a transnational business by its nature, from production to consumption. If demand is not rigid, if demand is very strong, very powerful, it might shift from one age group to the other, it might change geographically, but as an economic phenomenon it is persistent. It is impossible to resolve the problem backwards and in an isolated manner. It has to be combated integrally, and this is precisely what the drug commission is doing.”
8. Wide shot, conference room
While attending an international meeting in Vienna this week to take stock of progress in international drug control over the past decade, Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora Icaza talked about the drugs and organized crime situation in his country.
Medina Mora Icaza said that the national priorities for Mexico in fighting organized crime and drug trafficking are “to cease the level of economic fire power, and intimidation power” that have brought about the current wave of drug violence which has been threatening to spiral out of control.
The Attorney General pointed to the transnational nature of the drug trade and to the fact that guns and drug money are flowing into Mexico from the United States. He said that if “the supply of assault rifles from the United States into Mexico” could be substantially reduced and “routes, procedures, modus operandi” and money trails identified, “we would advance very much”.
Medina Mora Icaza said that demand “might shift from one age group to the other” or “change geographically”, but that as an economic phenomenon it has remained persistent. He added that the drug problem “has to be combated integrally, and this is precisely what the drug commission is doing.”
The High Level Segment of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs is being held in Vienna on 11 and 12 March.
