ABSTRACT: Motion for a resolution presented to the European Parliament by Marco Pannella on 21th Decembre 1984( doc. 2 472/84 Rev) on a community and international defence and attack strategy against the system of criminal drug multinationals

The European Parliament

A. having regard to the very great danger posed to the countries of the Community and to all politically democratic countries

with a humanistic legal tradition,free enterprise and economy by

multinational criminal organizations which produce drugs commercially;

B. whereas the effect of these organizations is that of an-ynprecedented assault on the social order,internationally,

within the Community and in individual states,striking at the very laws and economic and financial systems of the democratic world,and whereas they seem now to be capable of controlling the

very institutional life of whole states,particularly in Latin

America and the Far East;

C. whereas in the last decade the United Nations and individual states have experienced nothing but increasing failure at all levels in coping with this most burning issue of modern life,as is shown by both the extension of drug-producing areas from those to which production was formely limited to most of the continent of South America,and the increase in the host of drug addicts

controlled and encouraged by them to millions of individuals and the consequent exponential growth of the danger of exposure to drugs;

D. whereas statistics and estimates in various democratic countries afflicted by this scourge indicate that over 80% of

crimes such as theft,armed robbery and nugging can be attributed to addicts in trying to obtain money for the drugs they need;

E. whereas there is a notoriously symbiotic connection between drug and arms trafficking and drugs themselves have often been the means of payment for these arms;

F. whereas many authoritative official sources of information state that the joint traffic of drugs and arms is protected and exploited with a view to destabilizing democratic countries,and

Third World countries by totalitarian countries,other regimes and large multinational organizations;

G. whereas the income of the aforementioned crime multinationals now totals many thousand of millions of dollars a year in Europe alone; whereas the conversion and recycling of these huge profits threatens and contaminates every area,including even the most delicate,of the economy,production and international politics,creating new strength and power relationships to the increasing detriment of the democratic world and its institutions;

H. whereas the struggle against this network of criminal organizations can only be conducted internationally by a single

strategy with a proper alignment of laws and counter-measures,the formulation of international rules and the coherent coordination

of the enforcement of such laws;

I. stressing on the one hand the absolute urgency of adopting and enforcing a successful and suitable strategy, and on the other,the realistic assumption that it will take many years to achieve this objective throughout the world;

J. stressing that the European Community and individual Member States do not at present seem properly organized or prepared for this battle which is doing great harm to them;

K. stressing that no effort must be spared in support of both public and private initiatives,on the one hand for the social and civil reintegration of drug-addicts,in particular through the agency of the international medical community,and on the other for the strengthening of the invaluable work carried out by the

specialized United Nations Organization for the conversion of lands used for cultivating the opium poppy or cocaine,chich are the only existing battlefronts in the fights against the spread

of the evil;

1. Urges the Commission and the Council to ensure maximum support both from the Community and individual states for the Vienna-based United Nations Fund for the Control of Drug Abuse

in order to encourage the convversion to other crops of land now used for cultivating opium and cocaine in the tradiotional producer countries;

2. Also urges the Commission and the Council to provide maximum support for the activities of the medical community and the social rehabilitation of former drug addicts in Community countries;

3. Will consider the setting up of a Committee of Inquiry to decide what legislative measures of international,political

social and economic law are most suitable for overcoming and

eliminating the abovementioned system of criminal multinationals,

identifying the real causes and reasons for their continued strength. The methods and tactics used by them,the interests,which protech them and the objectives they pursue,

and also in order to propose a coordinated plan for combating

them and a suitable system of defence and attack measures to free

the xorl from this scourge and increasingly serious untrest;

4. Calls on the Commission to encourage the Member States to help the appropriate United Nations Committee on drugs to act to achieve this goal (and not just in the field of prevention of drug abuse) and to submit a report on this initiative within three months of the adoption of this resolution;

5. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Commission,the Council,the governements of the Member States and the Secretary-General of the United Nations.