STRUGGLE AGAINST ILLICIT TRAFFICKING IN PARAGUAY

摘要

Paraguay is a country situated in the middle of South America, limits with three important countries that has great movement in a special place called “three frontiers” and between Paraguay and Brasil there is an international bridge and for that passes all kind of many charges and menchandise because that place has great commertial activities and is also very cosmopolitan with people from every part or the world. For these reason is very important to control the merchandise that enter of pass the country . The CNEA – UNA iniciate in october, 2004, many activities with training courses for people from customes, airport and others to teach them how to control the frontier with Argentina, Brasil and Bolivia and also our country could be used as a way for passing radioactive material. It is very important to create an important group to make an adecuate detection, that could be used by malevolents and for this reason CNEA-UNA will continue with these activities with workshop at the airports, mainly two: Asunción and Ciudad del Este. CNEA-UNA has the appropiate equipment to do that and has also training people for this purpose. The CNEA-UNA began in october th 23th, 2003 with the Minister of Foreing Affairs and the OIEA an important international “Regional Seminar on Detection and Control of Radioactive Materials at border crossing” with the principal people of MERCOSUR, Bolivia and Chile, with forty five participants. The principal objetive of this workshop was to share the responsabilities of fighting againts the illicit traffic and to do an appropiate control of radioactive material in the borders. Also Paraguay have signe and is part of the group of IAEA Illicit Trafficking Database since july, 2003. To continue with this activity of control the CNEA-UNA presented a Regional Project “Establecimiento de un Sistema Nacional para Detectar y Contrarrestar el Tráfico Ilicito de Materiales Radiactivos y Nucleares” to the OIEA and we hope to be approved by the Agency.