Georgia joins anti-narcotics Pompidou Group
The Council of Europe’s drug policy cooperation platform, the Pompidou Group, is an inter-governmental body which was established in 1971 at the initiative of the late French President Georges Pompidou. Photo: Ministry of Justice.
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Georgia has become the 41st member state of the Pompidou Group, which is dedicated to combating drug abuse and illicit trafficking.
Georgia's accession to the Pompidou Group takes place at a symbolic moment, when the country's first chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers is coming close to its successful end,” writes the Council of Europe.
Georgia’s accession to the Council of Europe’s cooperation group to combat drug abuse and illicit trafficking in drugs is linked to the reforms to achieve drug policy liberalization, which have been carried out by the Ministry of Justice and should continue in the future”, says the Ministry of Justice.
The Council of Europe’s drug policy cooperation platform, the Pompidou Group, is an inter-governmental body which was established in 1971 at the initiative of the late French President Georges Pompidou.
The Georgian Justice Ministry has opened the first ever Drug Situation Monitoring National Centre in Tbilisi which will have to respond to drug-related challenges in the country. The ministry says that to open the centre they have been “closely cooperating” with the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) over the past five years.
Georgia will take over the chairmanship of Council of Europe’s (CoE) Committee of Ministers for a six-month term from November 2019 to May 2020. The chairmanship will be passed from France to Georgia at a meeting in mid-November 2019 at the CoE’s Strasbourg headquarters, attended by representatives of its 47 member states.
Starting today until May 15, 2020 Georgia will chair the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (CoE), a decision making body composed of the ministers of foreign affairs of the 47 member states of the Council of Europe or their permanent representatives in Strasbourg.Georgia has taken over the chairmanship from France.
The Council of European Union has praised Georgian human rights reforms in the EU Annual Report on Human Rights and Democracy in the World 2018.