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"The UAE and the United Nations signed an agreement here today on bilateral cooperation on drugs trafficking and drug-related crimes.
According to the agreement, the UN will set up a sub-office on Drugs and Crime in the UAE, which has undertaken bear the estimated $ 3 million cost of establishing the office. The sub-office will operate under the Cairo-based UN regional Office on Drugs and Crime. The UAE Ministry of Interior also paid an additional 50,000 US dollars as a contribution to the UN anti-narcotics programme.
The establishment of the sub-office in the UAE comes as a recognition of the country?s efforts to combat drugs.
?Although the UAE is used by traffickers as a route to other destinations, its aggressive policy to combat the menace of drug tracking has received international commendations, thanks to the directives of Major General Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Interior? said Major General Saif Abdullah Al Shafaar, Assistant Undersecretary of the Ministry of Interior for Security Affairs."
