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The global supply of cocaine has reached records levels, with coca cultivation soaring 35 percent from 2020 to 2021, according to a new UN report. UNIFEED

In a video message, Colombian President Iván Duque told the General Assembly’s General Debate that the “dictatorial regime” of Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro’s “supports itself with the profits of the drug trade; it shelters terrorists; and is a constant threat to democracy in the region and the whole world.” UNIFEED

The United Nations family in Vienna marked United Nations Charter Day on Friday with a virtual and actual gathering at the UN headquarters in the Austrian capital, and a commitment to work to fix the failings COVID-19 has exposed in our systems and social safety nets. UNIS VIENNA / FILE

The President of Colombia, Iván Duque, told the General Assembly that his government "is in possession of blunt and incontrovertible proof that corroborates the dictatorship’s support for criminal groups and narco-terrorists operating in Venezuela with the goal of attacking Colombia.” UNIFEED

A new UNAIDS report said that promises to improve health outcomes for people who inject drugs remain unfulfilled as 99 per cent do not have adequate access to HIV and harm reduction services. UNIFEED

Speaking at a United Nations high level meeting on drug problem, the United States President Donald Trump said “all of us must work together to dismantle drug production and defeat drug addiction.” UNIFEED

Addressing delegates at a General Assembly meeting on the world drug problem Wednesday, Canada’s Minister of Health Jane Philpott said her country will be introducing legislation on marijuana “that insures that we keep marijuana out of the hands of children and profits out of the hand s of criminals.” UNIFEED-UNTV

The head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said one important aspect of the outcome document adopted today during a General Assembly special session on the world drug problem was the need to enlarge the medical use of prohibited drugs like cannabis as painkillers "to support people." UNIFEED-UNTV

At the opening event Sunday of the Crime Congress in Doha, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called upon the member states to share their successes, challenges and experience “in preventing crime and promoting the rule of law to support sustainable development.” UNIFEED-UNTV

A new United Nations-backed study said Afghanistan registered record levels of opium poppy cultivation this year, with the illicit crop being cultivated in an estimated 224,000 hectares of land. The “Afghanistan Opium Survey 2014” indicated a seven percent increase in the total land area used by poppy growers, as compared to last year. UNAMA