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United States/Mexico Bi-National Drug Strategy
General Objectives
- Stop the increase in and reduce the illicit consumption, production, and
traffic of narcotics and psychotropic substances in both countries.
- In coordination, treat the problems generated by drugs in the realms of
health and safety in both societies.
- Agree on the actions necessary to reduce the production, trafficking, distribution, and consumption of drugs, as well as to eliminate crimes related to drugs
such as diversion of precursor and essential chemicals, money laundering,
and arms trafficking.
The binational cooperation strategy seeks in the end to contribute to the
elimination of the effects which drugs have in both societies. The collaborative
actions described in the Binational Strategy will complement the
national policies defined in the United States National Drug Control
Strategy and Mexico’s National Program for Drug Control 1995-2000.
Therefore, both countries have mutually agreed to design and apply specific
collaborative programs in priority areas. Both countries recognize that
bilateral cooperation, to be effective, can only be developed through adherence
to the principles of sovereign equality and the integrity of national territory,
as well as non-intervention in the internal affairs of other States. Both
nations agreed that bilateral collaboration is achieved on the basis of
the following principles: shared responsibility, adoption of an integrated
approach to the subject matter, balance and reciprocity, and efficient
application of the laws in each country.
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