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MEPs sensitive to the views of their constituents share their grave concern about the menace of drugs and drug trafficking to our young people and to our societies in general. The police and prosecuting authorities, the courts, and the prison services bear a heavy burden in seeking to uphold and enforce the law and to protect our citizens from this menace. They deserve our support and they certainly have mine.
We are faced today with a proposal to review objectively the question whether the UN Conventions of 1961, 1971, and 1998 relating to drugs are working effectively. It may be that, after full inquiry, the international community should adopt new approaches in relation to certain problems and anomalies. Whether this should happen or not depends on the evidence. We need an inquiry to establish which way the evidence points.
Unilateral departure from the Conventions would, by contrast, be quite unacceptable. The law must be firmly upheld both nationally and internationally until such time, if any, as it is amended for considered reasons.
On this ground I voted for the Buitenweg Report, and I previously signed Mr Cappato's declaration which provided the occasion for the Report. As Mr Cappato is well aware, I am not dogmatically pre-committed to the solutions he recommends."@en1
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