Key points identified by EU experts to be included in the conclusion of the open-ended intergovernmental expert working group on international cooperation on the eradication of illicit drug and on alternative development (UNODC/CND/2008/WG.3/CRP.4)

Recognize that development assistance in illicit drug crop producing areas should be undertaken in full compliance with the overall aims of human rights protection, poverty alleviation, conflict prevention and resolution, peace building and human security.

Acknowledge that it is particularly essential to ensure that eradication is not undertaken until small farmer households have viable and sustainable livelihoods and interventions are properly sequenced;

Do not make development assistance conditional on reductions in illicit drug crop cultivation.