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The executive president of the National Commission for Development and Life without Drugs Devida Ricardo Sobern highlighted the importance of the new social pact to strengthen alternative development in Peru at the inauguration of the sixth Meeting of the Group of Experts on Development Alternative co-organized by Peru together with Thailand the German Cooperation GIZ and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime UNODC.Facing 2022 the Peruvian State will strengthen its alternative development model mainly by reinforcing the strategy of concerted relationship with the Amazonian populations. In this sense Devida promotes a binding social and citizen pact with coca producers who voluntarily want to receive the benefits of our programs he emphasized. This meeting is being held within the framework of the 65th regular session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs CND organized by the United Nations UN. To avoid the social consequences of forced eradication it is necessary for citizens to truly commit through this pact to voluntarily and progressively reduce the production of coca crops and drugs in order to receive the benefits of State intervention and international cooperation added the head of the entity.Sobern Garrido gave the welcome remarks together with Wichai Chaimongkhon secretary general of the Office of the Narcotics Control Board ONCB of Thailand Sebastian Lesch Head of Sustainable Agricultural Supply Chains International Agricultural Policy Agriculture and Innovation at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development BMZ and Jorge Ros Head of the Sustainable Livelihoods Unit at the United Nations Office United Nations Against Drugs and Crime UNODC who also moderated the first segment of the events sessions.On the first day of sessions topics such as the updating of delegations and experts on initiatives in alternative development in preparation for the 65th CND discussion on alternative development environment and drug economies were addressed and tomorrow the topic strategies to strengthen the value chain increase access to the market and commercialize alternative development products.It should be noted that two specialists from the Directorate of Technical Affairs will participate in this meeting of experts Mr. Jos Isla who will present two topics on the Peruvian experience in alternative development and Mr. Juan Minaya who will moderate the last segment of the events sessions. .Likewise Ambassador Mara Cecilia Rozas Director of Drug Control of the General Directorate of Multilateral and Global Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru will be in charge of closing the international event. Due to the restrictions by Covid-19 this event is held virtually until January 27 in which expert delegations from various countries attend.
