3. Adjustments in Trafficking Routes 3.1. Current Divisions Figure 3.1: Trafficking Routes Originating in Myanmar and Laos

As opiate processing and distribution networks in East Asia source more of their supplies from Afghanistan they will need to re-organise their supply routes. The likely result will be a growing interdependence of the heroin trades in East Asia and Europe, which most analysts have hitherto seen as independent. 59 59 For example, in discussing price movements resulting from the Taliban's ban on opium cultivation, Mohammad Amirkhizi, Senior Policy Adviser to the UNODCCP Executive Director, concluded that " the trafficking networks sourcing their supplies from SouthWest Asia are still largely distinct from those active in SouthEast Asia " – speech to the Bishkek International Conference on enhancing security and stability in Central Asia: strengthening comprehensive efforts to counter terrorism, Bishkek: September 13-14 December, 2001. Similarly, UNODC's Global Illicit Drug Trends 2003 notes that " indicators do not provide evidence of frequent substitution effects between the heroin markets of SouthWest Asia and those of SouthEast Asia " (p.53).