United Nations, New York, 24 June 2011 - Illicit drugs and transnational organized crime can undercut security and development in countries and across regions, a top United Nations official told the Security Council today, stressing the need for concerted action to tackle these growing threats. "The time has come for urgent action. We need to take practical and pragmatic responses to these problems," Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), told a meeting of the Security Council. Full story: www.un.org