This is a field of poppies in Afghanistan.

Well, you'll probably finish up under the poppies in Flanders.

Over 96 per cent of the opium poppies produced in Afghanistan are cultivated on land under the control of the Taliban.

Reviews should be conducted on a yearly basis, and a follow up system should be put in place by countries that were producers of coca bush and opium poppies.

Afghanistan is NATO s great test. The Alliance has promised to see the job through. So if it abandons the job now, leaving the country to poverty, prejudice, and poppies, what then will happen?

It was very concerned that drug traffickers were sending drugs in transit through its territory, that poppies and coca were being cultivated in its border regions, and that its financial system was infested with dirty money.

Calls upon the International community to increase its assistance to enhance the efforts of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to curb the Plantation of Opium Poppies, production and trafficking of narcotics and to strengthen crop substitution program in Afghanistan.

Mr. Al Enezi (Kuwait), referring to the reports of the Secretary General on international cooperation against the world drug problem, eradication of illicit crops and alternative development, said that his delegation noted with concern that cultivation of opium poppies had increased.

Fourth, channel aid through the central government budget, or through local authorities, so that officials can acquire legitimacy by providing services and infrastructure, and provide subsidies and price support programs to replace poppies with licit crops such as cotton, which was produced in the past.