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10-07-2011, 03:30 PM
Answering questions from the press during a press conference, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton acknowledged the scourge of drug trafficking and the criminality of drug traffickers. But she pointed to corruption in the Dominican government as one of the reasons the country has more than its share of the drug trafficking penetration. The US is the leading market for illicit drugs in the world.
"No country is immune, and every country must do more to prevent the spread of drug trafficking and the criminal elements that profit from people's misery," said Clinton.
She continued: "So we work closely with our colleagues and counterparts in the Dominican Republic. We will continue to do so. Strengthening security for citizens and against criminal elements remains a very high priority. That's why we are working together in the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative. We are partnering with the Dominican Republic's military to help strengthen its ability to combat narco-trafficking, and we will be very clear about what our expectations are because we know that the people of the Dominican Republic deserve to lead safe, secure, peaceful lives free of the terrible violence that drug traffickers inflict.
Addressing the perils of corruption, she said: "We also know that drug trafficking goes hand-in-hand with corruption. And corruption is a cancer in any society. It needs to be addressed and eliminated. So we do support the Dominican Republic's participatory Anti-Corruption Initiative, which is the kind of program that can help to strengthen governance and increase transparency and improve the institutional capacity of the security forces in the Dominican Republic to defeat the challenge posed by drug traffickers.
"So we will continue to work together, but we will also continue to expect that those who are on the front lines of protecting the people of the Dominican Republic or anywhere in the region, are held to a high standard of accountability. Otherwise, we will not be successful".
See Spanish and English versions of the press conference at: http://www.acento.com.do/index.php/news/7808/56/Hillary-Clinton-Cada-nacion-tiene-la-obligacion-de-proteger-los-derechos-de-los-migrantes.html
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"No country is immune, and every country must do more to prevent the spread of drug trafficking and the criminal elements that profit from people's misery," said Clinton.
She continued: "So we work closely with our colleagues and counterparts in the Dominican Republic. We will continue to do so. Strengthening security for citizens and against criminal elements remains a very high priority. That's why we are working together in the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative. We are partnering with the Dominican Republic's military to help strengthen its ability to combat narco-trafficking, and we will be very clear about what our expectations are because we know that the people of the Dominican Republic deserve to lead safe, secure, peaceful lives free of the terrible violence that drug traffickers inflict.
Addressing the perils of corruption, she said: "We also know that drug trafficking goes hand-in-hand with corruption. And corruption is a cancer in any society. It needs to be addressed and eliminated. So we do support the Dominican Republic's participatory Anti-Corruption Initiative, which is the kind of program that can help to strengthen governance and increase transparency and improve the institutional capacity of the security forces in the Dominican Republic to defeat the challenge posed by drug traffickers.
"So we will continue to work together, but we will also continue to expect that those who are on the front lines of protecting the people of the Dominican Republic or anywhere in the region, are held to a high standard of accountability. Otherwise, we will not be successful".
See Spanish and English versions of the press conference at: http://www.acento.com.do/index.php/news/7808/56/Hillary-Clinton-Cada-nacion-tiene-la-obligacion-de-proteger-los-derechos-de-los-migrantes.html
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#9)