"ORGANIZATIONAL AND LEGAL PECULIARITIES OF CARICC ACTIVITY IN THE SPHERE OF COMBATING DRUG TRAFFICKING IN CENTRAL ASIA"

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INTRODUCTION Substances and their Precursors (signed in Astana In accordance with the Agreement between the on July 24, 2006, entered into force on March 22, Republic of Azerbaijan, the Republic of Kazakhstan, 2009), CARICC is functioning in Almaty under the the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the auspices of the United Nations as an interstate Republic of Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the body coordinating the efforts of the United Nations Republic of Uzbekistan on the establishment of the Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 1. Central Asian Regional Information and Coordination Center for Combating Illicit The history of CARICC dates back to December Trafficking in Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic 2004, with the meeting in Moscow of 1 https://caricc.org/index.php/tsarikts/o-tsarikts/o-tsentre https://www.theamericanjournals.com/index.php/tajpslc 34 THE USA JOURNALS THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE LAW AND CRIMINOLOGY (ISSN- 2693-0803) VOLUME 06 ISSUE04 representatives of the participating states of the Center of CIS Member States, CELEC Center - Memorandum of Understanding on Regional Regional Center for Cooperation in South-Eastern Cooperation in Drug Control of May 4, 1996 Europe on Combating Transnational Crimes, etc.). (Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, CARICC has been positively noted by specialized Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan), where international organizations as a unique example of the idea of establishing CARICC was agreed and multilateral cooperation in countering drug- 2 approved . The initial initiative to establish CARICC related crime in Central Asia. According to foreign came from Uzbekistan 3. experts, in recent years, initiatives such as CARICC have improved the effectiveness of regional Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russian cooperation in drug law enforcement. CARICC, Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan modeled after the European Police Office (Europol) and Kazakhstan are the participants of the and supported by UNODC, acts as a focal point for Agreement on the Establishment of CARICC. information exchange and operational cooperation CARICC is financed by donor states (USA, Japan, among drug law enforcement agencies in Central etc.) through the project of the Regional Office of 7 Asia . the UN Office on Drugs and Crime "On the Establishment of CARICC" 4 . METHODS The main objective of CARICC is to promote In the process of research, the author tried to regional cooperation in combating drug trafficking highlight the history of CARICC formation, practical through exchange and analysis of operational results of its activity with statistical data, as well as information, organization and coordination of joint the prospects of expanding international anti-drug 5 cooperation of Uzbekistan within the framework of operations . this organization. Since its establishment, CARICC has become an On the basis of comparative and statistical methods integral part of the regional mechanism for of research of the scientific article the author's combating drug trafficking. As part of the position on these issues with proposals to improve development of cooperation in combating drug the effectiveness of international cooperation of trafficking, a number of countries have been Uzbekistan in the field of drug control and granted observer status at CARICC (Afghanistan, counteraction to drug trafficking was developed. Austria, Belarus, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Mongolia, Pakistan, RESULTS Romania, Turkey, Ukraine, USA, Finland, France, During the period of the Center's activity, 84 anti- 6 Iran, Sweden) . Memoranda and Cooperation drug operations have been carried out under its Agreements were signed with specialized coordination, including international controlled international organizations (World Customs delivery. About 7.5 tons of drugs and more than 62 Organization, Interpol, CIS BCBOP - Bureau for tons of precursors were seized, 121 leaders and Coordination of Combating Organized Crime and active members of organized crime groups were Other Dangerous Types of Crime on the Territory detained. of CIS Member States, CIS ATC CIS - Anti-Terrorist 2 https://caricc.org/index.php/tsarikts/o-tsarikts/o-tsentre Центральноазиатского регионального информационного 3 https://www.uzbekistan.org.ua/ru/vneshnyaya- координационного центра по борьбе с незаконным politika/uzbekistan-i-mezhdunarodnye-organizatsii.html оборотом наркотических средств, психотропных веществ 4 https://caricc.org/index.php/tsarikts/pravovaya- и их прекурсоров. Ст.3 osnova/soglashenie-o-tsarikts 6 https://caricc.org/index.php/tsarikts/o-tsarikts/etapy- 5 Соглашение между Азербайджанской Республикой, stanovleniya Республикой Казахстан, Кыргызской Республикой, 7 Российской Федерацией, Республикой Таджикистан, https://www.incb.org/documents/Publications/ePublication/ Туркменистаном и Республикой Узбекистан о создании E-Publication_R_FINAL.pdf С. 12 https://www.the