Asunción, 9 APR (EFE).-Paraguay considers the drug problem must be addressed “comprehensively” and did not rule out supporting a decriminalization of certain substances, said his Foreign Minister, Jorge Lara Castro today.
“Approach must be comprehensive, because it involves not only combat the consumption and production” of drugs but that it also has to do with poverty, social inequality, regional security, organized crime or health policy, said the Chancellor after a meeting of Ministers with the President, Fernando Lugo, prior to the Summit of the Americas.
Therefore, it is necessary to think on a global policy, at the hemispheric level, allowing us to have global responses and not simply isolated or simply specific answers, thirty, according to an official statement.
Said the Minister at press conference, collected by the Agency official IP, the Paraguayan Government will lay its official position after the debate on this subject that will be held at the Cartagena Summit, where will hear, will analyze experiences of other countries.
The words of the Minister contrasted with what has been said a few days ago by the head of the national anti-drug Secretariat, César Damián Aquino, who asserted that Lugo would expose its opposition to the legalization in Cartagena.
Lara Castro said that the opinion of Aquino will be placed to debate and did not rule out that they come to decriminalize certain drugs, taking into account that the Suppression of sale and consumption has not had the expected outcome either in Paraguay or in other countries in the region.
For the moment, added, “urges the need to discuss the issue of drugs in the Summit of the Americas, in order to provide regional position and not only particular thereon”.
Image file from the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Paraguay, Jorge Lara Castro. EFE/file
