UN Will Use Satellite Monitoring to Identify Illegal Drug Cultivation

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Saturday, May 1, 1999
Author: 
Bruce Zagaris
Volume: 
15
Issue: 
5
Abstract: 
During the third week of March, 1999, the United Nations International Drug Control Program obtained the approval at the annual meeting in Vienna of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs to use its own satellite monitoring system to identify the cultivation of narcotics in the major source country.