Pino Arlacchi

Pino Arlacchi (Gioia Tauro, February 21st 1951 -) is a Sociologue and Italian Politicien become famous for its studies and its tests on the Mafia.

Biography

Of 1997 with 2002, he was general under-secretary of the the United Nations, director of UNDCCP (office of the United Nations for the control of the drugs and the prevention of the crimes), and managing director of the office of UNO to Vienna.

It was also consulting for the Direzione Investigativa Anti-Maffia (" Direction of the Antimafia" Fight;), president of IASOC (International association for the Study of the Organized crime), and honorary president of the foundation Giovanni Falcone, baptized according to the name of the Palerman judge (of which he was the friend).

He was professor associated in Sociologie applied to the Université with Calabria, the Université of Florence, and also external professor of the Université Columbia of New York. Thereafter it became teaching with the Université of Sassari in the faculty of Political science, station which it always currently occupies.

He was elected appointed (of 1994 with 1996) while being affiliated with the Partito Democratico della Sinistra (" Democratic party of Gauche") then senator (of 1996 with 1997) and finally vice-president of the parliamentary commission of investigation into the gangster phenomenon.

Shortly after its arrival with the UNO, its proposal to eliminate the cultures from Opium and Coke from here to 2008 and to develop alternative cultures is approved unanimously by the general meeting in June 1998. With this agreement, the production of narcotic decreased in an important way, in particular in Afghanistan. During this work, he concludes an agreement with the mode Taliban: in exchange of 25 million US dollars, Afghanistan was committed limiting its production of soporific Pavot. But finally, the agreement was rejected by the the European Parliament (which was to finance the project), because Afghanistan does not respect the Human rights. Always within the United Nations, Arlacchi launched the countryside War one drugs (" war with the drogue"), which was examined in 2000, but did not accept a unanimous support.

The resumption of the war in Afghanistan stopped the program developed by Arlacchi and the production of drugs started again to increase. Its more important contribution to UNO is the " Convention of the United Nations against the Organisé" Crime; , which was signed with Palermo in December 2000 and is coming into effect in 2003.

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