United States/Mexico Bi-National Drug Strategy
Specific Objectives
The Declaration of Alliance signed by the Presidents of Mexico
and the United States on May 6, 1997, sets goals in the following areas
of collaboration:
Alliance Point 1: Reduce the demand for illicit drugs through
the intensification of anti-drug information and educational efforts, particularly
those directed at young people, and through rehabilitative programs.
Alliance Point 2: Reduce the production and distribution of illegal
drugs in both countries, particularly marijuana, methamphetamine, cocaine
and heroin.
Alliance Point 3: Focus law enforcement efforts against criminal
organizations and those who facilitate their operations in both countries.
Alliance Point 4: Strengthen United States/Mexican law enforcement
cooperation and policy coordination, and ensure the safety of law enforcement
officers.
Alliance Point 5: Ensure that fugitives are expeditiously and
with due legal process, brought to justice and are unable to evade justice
in one of our countries by fleeing to or remaining in the other. To this
end, we agree to negotiate a protocol to the extradition treaty that, consistent
with the legal system in each country, will allow, under appropriate circumstances
and conditions, individuals to be tried in both countries prior to the
completion of their sentences in either country.
Alliance Point 6: Identify sources of and deter illegal traffic
in firearms.
Alliance Point 7: Work together to conclude a hemispheric agreement
outlawing illegal traffic in firearms.
Alliance Point 8: Work together for the success of the Special
Session of the U. N. General Assembly on Illicit Drugs in June 1998.
Alliance Point 9: Increase the abilities of our democratic institutions
to attack and root out the corrupting influence of the illegal drug trade
in both countries.
Alliance Point 10: Enhance cooperation along both sides of our
common border to increase security.
Alliance Point 11: Control essential and precursor chemicals
to prevent chemical diversion and illicit use, and improve information
exchange on this subject.
Alliance Point 12: Implement more effectively the laws and regulations
to detect and penalize money laundering in both countries, and enhance
bilateral and multilateral exchanges of information and expertise to combat
money laundering.
Alliance Point 13: Seize and forfeit the proceeds and instrumentalities
of drug trafficking, and direct these to the use of drug prevention and
law enforcement, in accordance with legal procedures in force in and between
our countries.
Alliance Point 14: Improve our capacity to interrupt drug shipments
by air, land, and sea.
Alliance Point 15: Implement training and technical cooperation
programs to ensure that anti-drug personnel acquire needed capabilities
and perform with the highest level of professionalism and integrity.
Alliance Point 16: Enhance and facilitate exchange of information
and evidence to prosecute and convict criminals and deter drug trafficking;
and ensure the security and appropriate use of the information and evidence
provided.
