According to a report by the public relations office of Iran's Anti-Narcotics Headquarters, Iran's Residing Representative at UN Offices in Vienna Ali Asqar Soltaniyeh said that Iran was elected at the session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in Vienna.
He added that Iranian Interior Minister and Secretary-General of Iran's Anti-Narcotics Headquarters Mostafa Mohammad Najjar addressed the CND meeting as the chairman of the regional committee, adding that the meeting was attended by ministers and representatives of the member states.
Soltaniyeh added that Mohammad Najjar stressed at the meeting that Iran will continue its campaign against the inauspicious phenomenon of drug-trafficking, underlining that national and regional cooperation against narcotics should be done free from political considerations and bias.
Mohammad Najjar is in Vienna to attend the fifty-sixth session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) that kicked off on Monday and ends on Friday.
More than 1,000 representatives from across the globe are attending the meetings to discuss issues ranging from international cooperation in combating drugs to public health and safety concerns, including the threat of new psychoactive substances.
The executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Yury Fedotov, has said this year's CND session "has a primary institutional role to play in defining the international drug control system of the 21st century."
According to the statistical figures released by the UN, Iran ranks first among the world countries in preventing entry of drugs and decreasing demand for narcotics.
The United Nations credits Iran with the seizure of 89% of the opium netted around the world.
Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the Iranian police have lost more than 3700 of their personnel in the country's combat against narcotics.
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