Mr. Eamon Gilmore:

Policymakers have to have to think about it.

We have to work more closely. Certainly it is an issue that the EU has been thinking about, namely, working more closely with Colombia on the drugs issue. Policy makers need to reflect on the consequences for countries like Colombia, for poor people in difficult circumstances who do not have protection and what the consequences of the consumption of cocaine in well-off parts of the world is resulting in for poor people in the areas where the coca is grown. We need to be thinking a bit more about it. It is not enough to say that a solution to the coca problem is to spray the crop or eradicate the crop or whatever, because that is only half the answer.