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UNIS/MA/85
10 November 2014

MEDIA ADVISORY

Media are invited to the Member State briefing on the launch of the 2014 Afghanistan Opium Survey

VIENNA, 10 November (UN Information Service) -The Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Yury Fedotov, will brief the Permanent Missions on the main findings of the Afghanistan Opium Survey 2014 - Cultivation and Production.

The report gives, among other things, an annual overview of the total area under opium poppy crop cultivation, potential crop production, affected provinces and Governor-led eradication efforts.

WHO:Yury Fedotov, Executive Director, UNODC
WHEN: Wednesday, 12 November 2014, from 10 to 11 a.m.
WHERE: Conference room C 6, C building, Vienna International Centre

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Media representatives who wish to attend and who are not already accredited to the VIC should write to press@unvienna.org. Please register no later than 12 noon on Tuesday 11 November 2014.

Access to the C building is via Checkpoint One of the Vienna International Centre.

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For further information please contact:

Luciana Viegas
Public Information Officer, UNODC
Telephone: (+43-1) 26060-4709
Email: luciana.viegas[at]unodc.org