Nuremberg, Germany, Oct 16 (CTK) – Prague has asked Germany for diplomatic assistance in talks with Vietnam as the biggest pervitin distributors are from the Vietnamese community living in the Czech Republic, Czech Interior Minister Milan Chovanec said after meeting his Bavarian counterpart Friday.
Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann and Chovanec signed a memorandum concerning drugs Friday.
Chovanec said representatives of the Vietnamese security forces promised the Czech Republic to help break the ethnic Vietnamese groups that produce drugs, but they have not met the promise.
One year ago, Vietnam pledged to send police specialists to the Czech Republic to help deal with the drug mafia.
He said the German assistance was effective in the previous negotiations with Vietnam.
“We need a joint diplomatic offensive against Vietnam,” Chovanec said.
Vietnam must understand that it has a bad reputation in the Czech Republic due to the pervitin producers, he said.
Vietnamese representatives could see last year that pervitin is a very big problem for Germany, he said.
Without help from Vietnam, it will be very difficult to infiltrate the drug producer circles, Chovanec said.
Like in Germany, Vietnamese punished for drug-related crimes in the Czech Republic should be sent to prisons in Vietnam as this has a deterring effect, Chovanec said.
The volume of pervitin produced in the Czech Republic and sold in Bavaria and Saxony slightly decreased this year, compared with 2014, but this is not a big success, but only a beginning, Herrmann and Chovanec said.
The number of property crimes in the Czech-German border areas has slightly decreased as well, they said.
Chovanec praised the operation of the Bavarian-Czech police centre in Schwandorf.
Hermann and Chovanec want to unify the EU legislation on sales of medicines in order to prevent the sales of those containing pseudoephedrine, from which drugs can be produced.
The ministers appreciated that the respective Polish laws have changed.
Herrmann said he appreciated the Czech side for not letting refugees move freely to Bavaria across its territory, unlike Austria. He thanked the Czech Republic for meeting the EU rules concerning migrants.
“We will not open a corridor like other countries that let migrants to Germany. We will do our utmost to meet the European law and help our partners in all measures that are reasonable,” Chovanec said.
