UNOFFICIAL TRANSLATION

FULL TEXT OF APPROVALS MADE BY EXPEDIENCY COUNCIL ON 22 JULY, 2006 CONCERNING REGIME'S GENERAL POLICIES FOR FIGHT AGAINST NARCOTICS

1.      Sweeping and decisive fight against all illegal activities and actions connected with narcotics and psychotropic substances and their precursors such as cultivation, production, importation, exportation, keeping and supply of narcotics;

2.      Sweeping reinforcement, development, equipment and use of intelligence, military, disciplinary and judicial possibilities for identifying, chasing and destroying networks and for fighting main domestic and international elements connected with narcotics and different kinds of psychotropic substances and their precursors;

3.      Reinforcement, equipment and development of units and mechanisation of information concentration control systems for controlling the country's borders and points of entry, for preventing illegal activities connected with narcotics, psychotropic substances and their precursors and for reinforcing the specialised anti-narcotics structure in the Disciplinary Force and other relevant departments;

4.      Adoption of preventive ways for fighting threats and damage resulting from narcotics and psychotropic substances by using governmental and non-governmental possibilities with concentration on the reinforcement of people's religious beliefs, cultural, artistic, sports, educational and propaganda activities in places of living and work as well as in educational, cultural and public centres;

5.      Adoption of appropriate measures in order for the use of narcotics, psychotropic substances and their precursors to be considered a crime except for scientific, medical and  industrial cases as well as for programmes approved for  treatment and for reducing damage;

6.      Setting up and development of public facilities for diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation and adoption of alternative scientific measures in an effective, comprehensive and sweeping way with a view to:

1. Treating and rehabilitating users;
2. Reducing damage;
3. Preventing a change in the consumption pattern from relatively dangerous substances to highly dangerous substances;
4. Disconnecting links between users and drug-traffickers;
5. Adopting necessary measures for paving the ground for social support in connection with employment and leisure time after the treatment of those addicted to narcotics and different kinds of psychotropic substances and providing consultative and medical services as well as legal and social support for rehabilitated persons and their families as well as providing facilities for treatment and support services for the said persons;
6. Adopting necessary measures for paving the ground for social support in connection with employment and leisure time after the treatment of those addicted to narcotics and different kinds of psychotropic substances and providing consultative and medical services as well as legal and social support for rehabilitated persons and their families as well as providing facilities for treatment and support services for the said persons;

7.      Reinforcement and promotion of regional and international diplomacy linked to narcotics and psychotropic substances by:

1. Making relations objective-oriented;
2. Making serious efforts at removing threats and turning them into opportunities;
3. Playing an active role in shaping and making decisions and in taking related actions;
4. Using experiences and technical, support and economic possibilities;
5. Paving the ground for concerted actions aiming at preventing the illegal transit of narcotics;

8.      Adoption of necessary measures for active presence and participation of people and their families and support for popular groups in the fields of prevention, reduction of damage and treatment of addicts;

9.      Development of fundamental, applied and developmental studies and researches on the fight against narcotics and psychotropic substances and prevention and treatment of addicts by relying on the world's modern knowledge and by using the related scientific and specialised capacities in the country;

10.  Promotion and amendment of the structure of the system for managing the fight against narcotics and psychotropic substances with a view to achieving the regime's general policies, to accelerating activities and to co-ordinating the adoption of operational policies and all executive, judicial and legal actions.