Ms. Yoana Barakova (EFSAS) speaking during 37th Session UNHRC
March 21, 2018
Ms. Barakova illustrated the nexus between narcotics and terrorism and how it is inherently controversial and a deeply politicized concept. She added that the poppy plant cultivation currently flourishes in the Golden Crescent, which is Asia's principal area of illicit opium production that overlaps three nations, namely Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan, whose mountainous peripheries define the crescent.
