AUKUS pillar 2: Advanced capabilities
What advanced capabilities are the UK, Australia and the US developing under the AUKUS security partnership?
This note examines the scale of the opium problem in Afghanistan and analyses recent trends in opium production in the country, including the latest figures published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in August 2008 and its forecast for 2009, published in February 2009. It also outlines the linkages between the narcotics trade and the Taliban insurgency.
Afghanistan and narcotics: Opium poppy cultivation trends, 2001 - 2009 (243 KB , PDF)
This note examines the scale of the opium problem in Afghanistan and analyses recent trends in opium production in the country, including the latest figures published by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in August 2008 and its forecast for 2009, published in February 2009. It also outlines the linkages between the narcotics trade and the Taliban insurgency.
Afghanistan and narcotics: Opium poppy cultivation trends, 2001 - 2009 (243 KB , PDF)
What advanced capabilities are the UK, Australia and the US developing under the AUKUS security partnership?
Many MPs receive enquiries from constituents asking how relatives or friends in Afghanistan might be able to come to the UK and the effectiveness of the resettlement and relocation schemes for Afghan nationals are under regular scrutiny.
This paper provides details and links for ministerial statements, urgent questions and parliamentary debates (from both Houses of Parliament) that cover international affairs and defence.