On 15 December 2023, Kyrgyzstan chaired an international online conference on expanded cooperation to counter illegal drug and new psychoactive substance trafficking.
The conference took place under a programme to fulfil the 2018-2023 Counter-Narcotics Strategy of SCO Member States for expanding cooperation between SCO member states to counter illegal drug and new psychoactive substance trafficking.
Attending the event were representatives from related SCO member state agencies, the SCO Secretariat, the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, the OSCE and the Central Asian Regional Information and Coordination Centre.
The participants exchanged information on issues of countering illegal drug trafficking in the SCO region.
SCO Deputy Secretary-General Nurlan Yermekbayev greeted the participants.