UNODC Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa has called for concerted efforts to break the vicious circle between insecurity and underdevelopment.
Addressing the Security Council on 24 February during a debate on global threats against international peace and security, Mr. Costa said, Instability attracts crime, and crime deepens instability. In a chain reaction, humanitarian crises follow, development is stalled, and peacekeepers are deployed.
To illustrate the problem, UNODC issued the report Crime and Instability: Case Studies of Transnational Threats. The report focuses in particular on the impact of flows of drugs (cocaine and heroin), piracy around the Horn of Africa and minerals smuggling in Central Africa.
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Antonio Maria Costa addresses the Security Council on December 8, 2009
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