 Ahora la flora es para su excelencia, Mr. Ibu Murales Aiba, Presidente de el estado de Bolivia. Mi excelencia es la flora de Dios. Gracias. Muchas gracias. Muchas gracias. Mi hermano, Presidente de esta sesenta y cinco sesiones, ministros y hermanos representantes de las diferentes comisiones diplomáticas. Primero, quiero agradecer a todos por invitarme a participar en esta sesenta y dos sesiones de las Comisiones Unidas de la Comisión Unida. Es importante recordar que 10 años han pasado, desde la declaración y el plan de acción que se adoptaron en el año 2009, para servir una estrategia para atacar el problema de la droga del mundo. Y si pudiéramos llevarse a un asesino, podríamos identificar algún progreso, pero también hay que notar que todavía hay muchos desafíos. La realidad ha mostrado que la so called war on drugs ha falto, y ahora nos vemos obligados a concebir de nuevos modelos, reconociendo la realidad de cada y cada uno de nuestros países y sus experiencias. En este contexto, es que deseo compartir con ustedes la experiencia de Bolivia, nuestra experiencia en Bolivia, nuestro modelo de combate a la producción de la hoja de coca y el control de la producción de coca, cuando nuestro gobierno, y a lo largo de la realidad de Bolivia, perdió un modelo muy distinto de la realidad de Bolivia, un modelo que fue tomado en cuenta los usos tradicionales y medicinales de la hoja de coca. En todo el país, la hoja de coca fue estigmatizada y criminalizada. La política de anti-drugs que fue implementada durante el neoliberalismo, el neoliberalismo en Bolivia, fue enviada a los producimientos de coca, y en turno, fue un mecanismo para servir de la hoja de coca. La criminalización de la producción de coca fue forzada en la naturaleza y logró respetar a los derechos humanos. En el mismo tiempo, el desarrollo alternativo fue promocido como una substitución para la producción de coca, que fue atacada a la total erradicación de nuestro coca a través de una policía de coca zero. La criminalización de la producción de coca y la imposición de las políticas que fueron muy altas de nuestra realidad led to an economic, social, and cultural crisis affecting the coca producers and the Bolivian people, and therefore Bolivia we decided to develop our own model to combat drugs trafficking and therefore we were able to implement a coordinated mechanism to reduce surplus coca leaf production, flanked by comprehensive development of coca and the cultural matter and a matter of identity. In the past, brothers and sisters, I want you to know that the anti-drugs policy was imposed upon us by the United States. You will recall that Law 1008 in Bolivia to combat drugs trafficking was submitted to our national parliament in English. Similarly, all such decisions showed direct interference with a clear and marked presence of the DEA. At many times in our political history in Bolivia this had an impact on our internal policy decisions. It was the United States who decided who would be appointed as commander of the police, who would be responsible for anti-drugs task forces. The DEA and the military bases that the United States erected in Bolivia in order to ensure control led to deaths, injuries and disappearances. They appear to be the true masters of Bolivia. By way of example, let me point out that in 2004 these acts of social repression continued to such an extent that there were confrontations that led to the deaths of coca growers. And it was this act that led the federations of Cochabamba to issue the social request of a specific amount of coca per family, a so-called cattle. One cattle is the equivalent of 1.6 square meters for the region of Cochabamba and this respected the traditional area that has been set aside for peace in the Yungas. Since I assumed the presidency in Bolivia we have decided to nationalize these decisions and ensure that we can uphold our anti-drugs policy in a true dignified and sovereign manner. In 2013 we were able to set aside as a result of the reservation to the 1961 Vienna Convention decriminalizing Akuliku or coca leaf chewing in Bolivia and in the same time we firmly uphold the prohibition on the use of glyphosate for coca eradication as we are well aware of the terrible consequences that this has for mother earth and for the environment. Brothers and sisters I would like you to know that at no time has Bolivia in any way strayed from international law rather we have followed the procedures set forth under the 1961 Convention and under treaty law. As regards coca production and control mechanisms for social control have been established where dialogue, coordination and respect for human rights prevail working together with the unions and with communities in order to take decisions. Furthermore sanctions have been implemented for those holding surplus coca and the producers themselves are responsible for exercising control. A further important point to note is that our model is based on the family we are proud of what we have achieved to date and we are grateful for the international recognition that our work has received from various international entities. Thirteen years ago coca production in Bolivia represented 20% of the total amount of coca leaf production in the Andean region. Currently our output 10% of this total output and this attests to the successful implementation of our model. It is equally important to bear in mind that drugs exist because there is a demand for these drugs and brothers and sisters that our countries such as the United States and others that our leaders when it comes to drug use at this meeting we should also engage in studying whether the actions adopted to prevent drug use are proving effective and what needs and what should be done in order to improve them brothers and sisters representatives as I said already 10 years ago and as I continue to sustain you cannot have free cultivation cultivation of coca production but at the same time zero coca leaf production is equally unfeasible because in Bolivia and in other brotherly countries we have the traditional ancestral and medicinal use of coca. Here in Bolivia with the support of the World Health Organization and we now in universities the coca leaf does not affect human health negatively and quite the contrary in fact has medicinal and nutritional value therefore I would like to share the following with you the positive experience that we have developed based on our model through the regionalization of the struggle against drugs trafficking by establishing a regional anti-drugs intelligence gathering center in Bolivia We have brought together countries of the region Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay who have sent their liaison officers and their intelligence analysts to work in unison and in a coordinated fashion to date we have obtained significant results we have been able to capture a number of individuals who were on the run and with the subject of international arrest warrants for drugs trafficking In Bolivia we have also recently adopted a new set of legislation that comprises effective mechanisms to strengthen our struggle against drug trafficking such as efficient cooperation wiretapping paying informants and the forfeiture of assets Through these measures we have been able to further strengthen our approach in order to dismantle criminal organizations and strike them economically where it hurts drug use and drug trafficking move approximately some $320 billion yearly and this money is moved to using illegal mechanisms between the banks and for this reason we condemn all forms of tax havens and once again stress the need for transparency and openness of accounts of all individuals In Bolivia all government authorities have disclosed their bank accounts Once again we reiterate our call for the need for tangible actions in order to put an end to these tax havens and thus undermine drug trafficking and weaken transnational organized crime To conclude I would like to commend and to thank the European Union for its support As part of shared and respectful responsibility free from conditions which is most important and in the same vein I would also like to thank the United Nations Office against Drug and Crime in Bolivia that has supported us in the implementation of our Bolivian anti-drugs policy helping to buttress our institutional capacity in order to tackle organized crime Our model to combat drug trafficking through the exercise of social control which respects human rights and through the comprehensive development of COCA has gained visibility on international level and therefore our anti-drugs policy is successful. Thank you very much