Counternarcotics strategy and police training in Afghanistan
The House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia met on Thursday to discuss counternarcotics strategy and police training in
In Ackerman’s opening remarks he stated: “After six years of trying to put things right in
Mark Schneider, senior vice president of the International Crisis Group, was one of two witnesses present at the hearing. Schneider said that the United Nations’ 2007 World Drug report states that “today
The other witness present, Thomas Schweich, the State Department coordinator for counternarcotics and justice reform in
Schweich also discussed the
First, dramatically increasing the scope of incentives, such as development assistance and expansion of the Good Performers Initiative, and disincentives, such as interdiction, eradication, and law enforcement. Second, working with NATO allies to improve coordination of counternarcotics and counterinsurgency information-sharing and operations. Third, developing consistent, sustained political will for the counternarcotics effort among the Afghan government,
During both his testimony and the question and answer period, Schweich maintained that while progress is being made,
During the question and answer period, some lawmakers pointed out the difficulty of tackling such an enormous problem, citing the fact that opium revenue accounts for about a third of
“The situation in
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