Vienna Declaration 2003
One
Million Signatures supporting UN Sanctions on Narcotics.
Anti-drug campaigners representing thousands of EU Citizens working to combat the world drug epidemic will travel to the UN Headquarters in Vienna to voice their concerns at the mounting pressure coming from pro-drug organisations to persuade the United Nations to scrap all legal sanctions on drugs.
These organisations, according to EURAD President Grainne Kenny "have massive financial backing from individuals such as George Soros the disgraced international financier who has recently been convicted of Insider Trading by the French Government. Furthermore, they are using Public Institutions such as the European Parliament and the United Nations to gain respectability for their dubious cause, she said". At a recent hearing in the European Parliament in Brussels they delivered a plan to undermine the UN Conventions during the forthcoming Review of Sanctions to take place during the Ministerial Summit in Vienna. These binding international agreements are in turn the basis for national laws which provide for the control of cultivation, processing and sale of these drugs. Laws which protect our societies from the harm they cause, especially the direct dangers they pose to our children.
Their stated goal is to legalise all drugs so that they can then control the market. In February their 'inside man' at the UN Mr Mike Trace, Head of Demand Reduction was forced to 'RESIGN' his position when papers showing his financial connections to these people were made available to Mr Antonia Maria Costas Head of the INCB. Mr Trace was formerly UK Dep. Drug Tsar and Head of the highly criticised EDMCCDA in Lisbon. NGO's have insisted that all reports emanating from Lisbon during Mr Trace's tenure of office now lack credibility.
We are urging all delegates, including Government Ministers attending the Summit to hold firm to the international narcotic agreements that they have signed according to Mrs Kenny They must explore new ways to reduce the demand for drugs and understand that drugs are illegal because they are dangerous they are not dangerous because they are illegal.
Legalisation will not alter the chemical compounds or
the addictive nature of these banned substances. Rather,
it will unleash a silent chemical warfare on our most
vulnerable people. This may not draw the attention of
the media in the manner of the present war on Iraq but
it will spread out to an even wider population will all
it's deadly consequences.
In an effort to impress upon International Leaders the strength and commitment
of the overwhelming majority of the worlds citizens who firmly believe that
dangerous drugs must be subject to strict controls EURAD together with International
Colleagues from many NGO's will present 1 million signatures to INCB Head Mr
Costas at this Summit. Hassela Nordic Network International Centre (www.hnnsweden.com) in
Sweden are administering the collection of the signatures.
For further information contact:
Grainne Kenny @ +353 86 2345245
