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Costa Rica is participating in the III Birregional Meeting for the exchange of good practices between the Countries of Latin America the Caribbean and the European Union which is being developed within the framework of the Coordination Mechanism and Cooperation in Drug Matters CELAC-UE in Panama City Panama from November 27 to 28.The activity brings together 39 national delegations 8 international organizations including the Pan American Health Organization the United Nations Organization against Drugs and Crime European Commission the Community of Caribbean States etc. In his interventions as a country that led the process of applying quality criteria in prevention it has been very satisfying to share with the two regional blocks the achievements in establishing guidelines based on evidence and focused on the person beyond the substance.The objective of the bi-regional meeting is to exchange good practices and discuss national drug policies with the aim of moving forward with concrete actions towards a global policy. Both regions assumed the commitment to address this global problem with programs based on the definition of standards that allow to guide policies programs and activities on drug demand reduction. The Costa Rican delegation expressed gratitude for the support provided by the European Commission through its COPOLAD program by promoting workspaces for the development of quality standards platforms for both the prevention and treatment of drug use and ratified the interest of being part of future phases.The program develops multiple activities that have strengthened the bi-regional dialogue on evidence-based drug policies the development of consensus processes both to consolidate the role of the national drug observatories and to establish quality and evidence-based criteria in reducing drug demand as well as to articulate a strategy of training and exchange of information between professionals and decision makers both in the field of demand reduction and in the supply reduction.Representatives of the Costa Rican Institute on Drugs ICD the Institute on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence IAFA the General Directorate of Foreign Policy - Department of Disarmament Terrorism and Organized Crime - the Permanent Mission of Costa Rica to the European Union with the Accompaniment of the Costa Rican Embassy in Panama they make up the national delegation.
