Best Position Paper at TKHI MUN 2011

Position Paper

Country           : Venezuela
Delegate          : Duwi Riyadi Putra (Universitas Indonesia)
Issue                : Narcoterrorism
Committe         : DISEC

For years, Venezuela is deeply concerned with the issue of narcoterrorism, a problem that is spreading around the world, especially in developing countries. With the emergence of the drug trafficking as a tool of fund-raising for terrorist activity and the increasing accessibility of international trade, physical barriers are not the only barriers withering away. The agreement concerning on arresting drug trafficking seems effortless since its syndicate run the business in a smooth way. Locating near Colombia, Venezuela understands that the issue will blow all day around us. Colombia’s blacklist on drug trafficking to the United States of America through Venezuela for its well-known terrorist organization, FARC, for instance, could be one of the reason why the issue seems so close with Venezuela. Yet, the issue never being followed by its reliable proof. Venezuela always maintains its “working cooperation” internationally in the drug fight. More than 44 tonnes of drugs had been seized so far this year. Moreover, the government had succeeded in dismantling 19 cocaine factories in Venezuela. Even in July 14th, 2010, Venezuela extradited an alleged colombian drug lord to United States. However, Venezuela realizes that it’s not an end, since we have longer road to face to fight with narcoterrorism.

“Narcoterrorism as a world threat, yet it’s absolutely not undefeated”. This view makes Venezuela recognizes that countries in the world should work and cooperate together to combat narcoterrorism. In the past year, Venezuela has done its best to combat narcoterrorism without DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) assistance. Being expelled from DEA, Venezuela makes much more drug-related arrest and drug seizures all around its territory. One of the best achievement is Carlos Alberto Renteria’s arrest. Mr Renteria had been on a US government most-wanted list since 2004, in terms of being responsible for smuggling around 500 tonnes of cocaine into the United States via Mexico during the 1990s. So far, simultaneously running drug-related raid and seizures in our territory is the effective means to combat narcoterrorism.

As narcoterrorism is being an international problem, particularly in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, the cooperation among each nations is precisely needed. Venezuela proposes some new ways to combat narcoterrorism, they are hosting technical workshops or seminars, disseminating best practices, and sharing of expertise. Venezuela would also take an international leadership role to combat terrorist financing by devoting substantial new funding to bolster our analytic, investigative, and prosecution resources. The more feasible way we are going to do are strengthening our own laws, enhancing transportation and border security, working with international allies, or combating the crime of terrorist financing, we are taking action to protect Venezuelans. We would also promote a new kind of prevention to let the terrorist growth with the effectiveness of international exchange of financial intelligence that can play an important role in the investigation and prosecution of both money laundering and terrorist activity financing. In short, Venezuela always supported innovative and effective ways of establishing cooperation within and between regional organizations. We look forward to offering its support to the eradication of narcoterrorism to the peace of the global community.