ECUADOR NEWS MAGAZINE: Ecuador rejects statement made by the USA

ECUADOR NEWS MAGAZINE: Ecuador rejects statement made by the USA: Official Statement Ecuador news magazine - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Human Mobility of Ecuador rejects the assertions found in...September 15, 2014.



Ecuador
believes that issues related to the World Drug Problem must be addressed
in a multilateral framework, in accordance with international law and
respecting the sovereignty of the States.



Unilateral
pronouncements on this and other issues have not been and will not be
accepted by the international community nor by Ecuador.



The
document issued by the White House acknowledges that the United States
is the largest consumer of drugs and, therefore, the main destination of
illicit drugs in the world.



The Foreign
Ministry recalled that the last World Drug Report of the United Nations
Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said that Ecuador is one of 10
countries with the greatest success in the fight against the World Drug
Problem, through the effective control of its seaports.



The
Government reiterates its commitment to the implementation of sovereign
policies that privilege the interests and health of its population under
the constitutional principles of the Good Living.