Since all countries are beset by the illegal drugs problem, the Philippines has “to collaborate with countries that are the origins of drugs traffic and to intensify all efforts to arrest all traffickers and pushers,” Bersamin said.
“Our alertness and quickness in frustrating such smuggling must be constant and unrelenting. We must collaborate with countries that are the origins of drug traffic in stifling the menace,” he said. A stronger government response, he stressed, “is the adoption of a robust system of communication, cooperation and coordination among all concerned agencies and offices, as well as of an operational legal framework to prosecute the traffickers and their minions.”
The summit was the culmination of the pre-summit workshop conducted by the Philippine Judicial Academy in Tagaytay last month.