Guinea Bissau: Security Council Told Progress Since Civil War of Late 1990s Imperilled By Drug Trafficking, Lack of Stability

United Nations (New York)

7 October 2008

Guinea-Bissau had come a long way since the civil war of the late 1990s, but all those gains would be at risk if stability were not cemented and the menace of the illicit drug trade was not confronted head-on through a regional approach, B. Lynn Pascoe, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, told the Security Council this morning.