The delegation of the CARICC headed by the Director of the CARICC, Major General of Militia  Miralizoda Rustam Aziz participated in the Paris Pact Expert Working Group meeting on Precursors, which took place on October 24-25, 2022 in Bucharest, Romania.

The meeting reviewed current trends, routes and methods of smuggling precursor chemicals used in the production of heroin and methamphetamine.

Director of CARICC informed about the latest trends in seizures of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors in Central Asia. He drew attention to the growth of drug production in Afghanistan, which is confirmed by the increase in seizures of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors in the CARICC member States. He noted that the analysis of trends in the development of the drug situation in the space of the CARICC member states predicts its further development.

In order to intensify measures to prevent the illicit trafficking of precursors in the region and their supply to Afghanistan, Director of CARICC proposed a number of recommendations:

1. Conducting training courses for law enforcement officers of the region on the identification and suppression of illicit trafficking in precursors.
2. Establishment of close regional and international cooperation in the fight against illicit trafficking of precursors, including within the framework of the Regional Operation "Substitution".
3. Regular exchange of information in real time between competent authorities for an efficient response and prevention of leaks of chemical precursors.
4. Establishing interaction of law enforcement agencies with firms/manufacturers of precursors to prevent leakage of precursors.
5. Organization of trainings on control delivery operations of precursors in Central Asia with the participation of the competent authorities of the CARICC member States.
6. Strengthening control measures over the production (import/export/transit) of precursors in order to prevent their illegal import into Afghanistan.

At the end of the meeting, participants adopted the recommendations of the Paris Pact working group of experts on precursors.

From October 17 to 21, 2022, the 11th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNCT) took place in a hybrid format, at which about 1,500 participants from 131 countries, including 22 international organizations and 193 civil society organizations, registered.

At this event in an online format, CARICC analyst Komilzoda Sh. took part.

Ms. Gada Wali, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, addressed the participants of the event with a welcoming speech.

In her presentation, the representative of UNODC emphasized that “UNOCT and its Protocols are powerful tools for building the resilience of States and societies to crime. It's time to step up their implementation."

The event considered a number of thematic resolutions, including the implementation of provisions on international cooperation, technical assistance to prevent and combat transnational organized crime that damages the environment.

Among other thematic issues, the Conference of the Parties considered strengthening international cooperation in combating all forms of transnational organized crime, including human trafficking, smuggling of migrants, trafficking in firearms, cybercrime, financial and environmental crimes.

The participants exchanged views, stressed the importance of close international cooperation in combating transnational organized crime and terrorism between law enforcement agencies and international partners.

On October 18-19, 2022, the CARICC delegation headed by Director R.Miralizoda took part in the high-level international conference “International and Regional Border Security and Management Cooperation to Counter Terrorism and Prevent the Movement of Terrorists” in Dushanbe.

President of the Republic of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres opened the event. High-level representatives of the European Union, OSCE, China, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Qatar and other states also made presentations at the conference.

The conference was aimed at promoting international cooperation to improve border and customs controls in order to prevent and detect the movement of terrorists, including foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs), illicit trafficking of small arms and light weapons, conventional ammunition and explosives, nuclear, chemical, biological or radiological weapons and materials.

This forum supported the implementation of additional measures on border security and management, criminal justice, and information sharing in accordance with international humanitarian law, international human rights law and international refugee law.

The conference was an integral part of the “Dushanbe process”, which was held in 2018 following the results of the first high-level international conference “Combating terrorism and violent extremism” (Dushanbe, May 3-4, 2018) by the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan in cooperation with institutions UN, OSCE and European Union.

Within the framework of the conference, CARICC Director R.Miralizoda made his statement, in which he drew attention of the participants to the relationship between terrorism and drug trafficking in the financing of terrorist activities at the expense of funds received from the drug business.

In this context, the Director of CARICC advocated close international cooperation in the following matters:

- capacity building in conducting bilateral and multilateral anti-drug operations;

- study of topical problems of the relationship between terrorism and drug trafficking, with the identification and blocking of the use of the Internet space by terrorist organizations and drug groups to realize their criminal intentions.

At the end of the conference, the Dushanbe Declaration on Border Security and Management Cooperation to Counter Terrorism and Prevent the Movement of Terrorists was adopted.

In Astana, the Republic of Kazakhstan, from October 4 to October 5, 2022, an international conference was held on strengthening cross-border cooperation between law enforcement agencies of Central Asia in the field of combating human trafficking.

The event was organized by the OSCE Program Offices in Astana and Dushanbe.

During the conference, topical issues in the field of combating human trafficking in the countries of the region, best practices and experience of the OSCE participating countries in strengthening the institutional response of states to cases of human trafficking were considered.

The format of the conference included discussions, exchange of experience, knowledge and best practices on combating human trafficking in the OSCE region with a focus on Central Asia.

The conference was attended by CARICC analyst Barzu Avazzoda, who made a presentation on "CARICC as a leading platform for regional and international cooperation in combating drug trafficking and cross-border drug crime."

As a result of the event, the participants developed a number of recommendations to simplify the exchange of information and strengthen cross-border cooperation between law enforcement agencies in Central Asia in the field of combating human trafficking.