As of late, transnational drug trafficking has become an increasing problem on a worldwide scale. This traffic in controlled substances has many negative
implications, including the oppression of many individuals in poorer nations, the negative effects the drugs themselves can have on a populace, and the question of the dispersion of funds gained by transnational drug trafficking. Many third world nations have terribly abusive systems which capitalize on the lower class by using them as drug producers and trapping them in a continuous cycle of debt. Many middle-eastern, South American, and African nations could attest to this; Afghanistan, Columbia, and South Africa for example, and there are more. Drugs are then shipped to richer nations for consumption. Said shipment usually also utilizes poverty stricken individuals duped into making what they have been deluded, an example being the use of immigrant “mules,” in the South America to US drug trade, those who pack drugs over the border lured by promises of a better life. Transnational drug trafficking is also a problem because of the effects the narcotics being trafficked have on the target population. In the UK, for example, one European country heavily targeted by drug traffickers, studies by the Cabinet Office of Public Service and Science show that close to half of all individuals under 25 have used illegal drugs and that more than half of all recorded crime is drug
related. In addition to the suffering of the individual user, society as a whole is affected by factors such as breakdown of the family structure, crime, homelessness, unemployment, and the proliferation of HIV/AIDS (Source: Drugworld.org). In short, transnational drug trafficking is a serious problem that poses concerns for all.

The Republic of Mozambique believes that action must be taken combating the transnational drug trade. Mozambique itself has a problem with the international drug trade, as indicated by internal study and a 2003 CIA report. Mozambique is a transport point for South Asian hashish and heroin, as well as South American cocaine. Mozambique is also sadly a producer of methaqualone and cannabis, recently ranked second on a Drugworld.org index of drugs by users worldwide, currently coming in at 141 million. The Republic of Mozambique, therefore, strongly urges action against the transnational trafficking of drugs. Also, Mozambique feels that if more financially sound nations on this planet would be willing to provide other kinds of basic assistance to both Mozambique and
other third world countries, it would give said poorer countries a better base to support the fight against the transnational drug trafficking scourge.

Mozambique suggests economic reinforcement as a way to solve the current problem with the transnational drug trade. Unlike with other issues, the drug trade is universally agreed upon by governments as something to be fought against. The infrastructure to fight said trade already is in existence, and Mozambique feels that to solve the current issue of international drug trafficking, individual countries and the world body as a whole simply need to devote more resources to the existing anti-drug establishment.