Myanmar has declared that it will continue to fight drug in 2013 under a revised 15-year drug eradication plan (1999-2014) which has been extended for another five years until 2019 to maintain the momentum of war against drug.
Myanmar has been implementing the 15-year original plan since 1999 in three five-year phases to fight against drug and the plan has now reached the fourth year of the final five-year phase before it was extended.
Meanwhile, Myanmar and the United States have also signed a letter of agreement on resuming joint opium yield survey this year after such cooperation was halted for nine years since 2004.
The letter of agreement, signed in February, signified Myanmar' s continued efforts in strengthening cooperation with the international community in drug elimination.
Myanmar and the U.S. had conducted joint opium yield survey for 10 times before 2004.
In recent years, drug trafficking, once viewed largely as a social and criminal problem, has transformed into a major threat to the health and security of people and regions.
The cooperation of law enforcement agencies of the four countries -- Myanmar, China, Laos and Thailand has resulted in the arrest of drug trafficker and fugitive Sa Naw Kham in Laos in April 2012 who committed ambush attacks in the Mekong River, killing 12 personnel undertaking law enforcement duties and five civilians in 2011.
Naw Kham and three of his accomplices were executed by lethal injection in the city of Kunming in southwest China's Yunnan Province in accordance with law on March 1, 2013.
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