Conference on Combating Afghan Opiate Trade Opens in Vienna
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (third from left) speaks at the opening of the Third Ministerial Conference of the Paris Pact Partners on Combating the Afghan Illicit Opiate Trade in Vienna, Austria. Pictured with him, from left: Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC); Jan Kubis (in second row), Mr. Ban’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and Head of the UN mission in the country (UNAMA); Michael Spindelegger, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Austria; and Alain Juppé, Minister for Foreign Affairs of France.