X. Discuss the following statements in pairs.

1. The necessity of effective regional anti-drug policy formation in Russia.

2. To gain comparative data on anti-drug work in different countries is important.

XI. Make up reports on the following issue:

“On using mass media potential in anti drug propaganda promotion”.

Unit 9. 2

Anti-Drug Summits and Conferences in different countries

9.2.1. 20^th Annual Meeting of the Pompidou Group’s Airports Group

Read the text to fulfil the tasks

Since its creation in 1986, on the initiative of the French delegation, the Airports Group has met annually with a threefold objective: to define practical forms of cooperation among international airports, to assess the organisation of control services and the working methods used in the major European airports and to encourage personal contacts between those in charge of control services.

About 100 participants from 34 countries participate annually in the meeting of the Co-operation Group of Drug Control Services at European Airports.

The meeting opens with an annual review of drug seizures made in European Airports, drawn up by the Regional Intelligence Liaison Office of the World Customs Organization (WCO/RILO). Based on the seizure reports submitted regularly by the European member States to their Customs Enforcement Network, the review notes seizures of all categories of drugs at airports. This confidential report is a source of strategic information for policy-makers.

Highlight of the meeting which took place in Budapest on 7 and 8 June 2005 was the presentation of the new version of the Passenger Control Handbook by the Spanish delegation, which includes an analysis of technical devices for drug detection at airports.

Participants also discussed issues related to general aviation, in particular with regard to seizures made, national action plans and recent updates of the Handbook on organising and carrying out checks.

Specific working sessions are devoted to various topics, namely controlled deliveries, the displacement of couriers and the detection and treatment of swallowers, the permanent assessment of the risk of crime at airports, the role of intelligence services in gathering, compiling and analysing data and information to support and improve the efficiency of operational resources.

Future priorities for the Airports Group include setting up a database for permanent operational analysis and statistical purposes and further exploring the subjects of airport crime and controlled deliveries.

Text-study

1. Learn the following words.

Participant – участник;

annually – ежегодно;

threefold – трехкратный;

to assess – оценивать;

to encourage – поощрять;

to draw up – составлять;

Liaison office – отделение связи;

seizure – захват, задержание;

to submit – представлять на рассмотрение;

intelligence service – служба разведки;

to compile – составлять, компилировать.

2. Answer the following questions.

1. When was the Airports Cooperation Group of Drug Control Services created?

2. What objectives are fulfilled by the Airports Group?

3. What information is delivered at the annual meetings of the Airports Group?

4. Specific working sessions are devoted to various topics, aren’t they? Name some of these topics.

5. Why is it necessary to present new technical devices for drug detection at the airports?

3. Match the given Russian word-combinations on the left with the English word-combinations on the right.

1) контролируемая поставка;	a) categories of drugs;
2) разведывательная служба;	b) annual review;
3) категории наркотиков;	c) controlled delivery;
4) анализ информации и данных;	d) intelligence service;
5) ежегодный обзор.	e) analyzing data and information.

4. Find in the text the words that correspond to the following definitions.

   1. the act of taking something quickly and keeping or holding it;

   2. to prepare (usually smth official) in writing;

   3. secret, often in a formal, business or military situation;

   4. forcing someone out of one’s usual or original position;

e) a government department or other group of people who gather and deal with information about other countries or enemies, or the information gathered.

5. Find in the text the English equivalents of the following words and expressions.

   1. захват наркотиков;

   2. регулярно представлять;

   3. источник стратегической информации;

   4. кульминация встречи;

   5. наркокурьер;

   6. глотатель наркотиков;

   7. оценка степени риска;

   8. создание базы данных;

   9. осуществлять проверки.

6. Match the verbs with the nouns. Give the translation of the phrases you’ve got.

1) to participate in;	a) review;
2) to make;	b) a report;
3) to submit;	c) the meeting;
4) to discuss;	d) checks;
5) to carry out.	e) issues.