India will host the two-day BRICS Heads of Anti-Drug Agencies Meeting, beginning tomorrow in Guwahati, Assam. The Ministry of Home Affairs said that the meeting will bring together the Heads of Anti-Drug Agencies and senior officials from BRICS member countries to strengthen institutional continuity and foster deeper operational cooperation among the grouping’s drug control agencies.The meeting will focus on strengthening operational coordination, intelligence sharing, capacity building, and collective responses to emerging drug-related threats. The meeting, hosted by the Narcotics Control Bureau, will focus on areas, including Combating Synthetic Drugs and Precursor Diversion, Strengthening Intelligence Sharing and Operational Coordination and Capacity Building and Institutional Cooperation. India envisions this meeting as a pivotal step in transforming BRICS cooperation from dialogue-centric engagement to structured and action-oriented collaboration.The meeting will provide India with an opportunity to showcase its decisive efforts to combat the drug menace, as the abuse of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances poses a serious threat to public safety and health and the future of the nation’s youth. The two-day meeting is expected to conclude with the adoption of a Joint Declaration aimed at strengthening collective action against transnational drug threats among BRICS nations.
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