The establishment of CARICC as an international organization for coordinating the efforts of the competent authorities of the participating states in combating transnational drug crime is one of the largest-scale projects of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
The Agreement on the Establishment of CARICC was signed on November 6, 2008.
Participating States (7): Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan (the Agreement has been ratified by all states).
The date of CARICC’s establishment is defined as March 22, 2009 (the 30th day from the date of deposit of the fourth instrument of ratification with the depositary).
June 1, 2010 is the official start date of CARICC’s operations. The location of CARICC is Almaty (52 Abay Avenue).
Main objectives of CARICC:
Observer status
Observer status at CARICC has been granted to 18 countries (Austria, Afghanistan, Belarus, the United Kingdom, Germany, Iran, Italy, Canada, China, Mongolia, Pakistan, Romania, the United States, Turkey, Ukraine, Finland, France, and Sweden), as well as more than 10 international organizations (INTERPOL, the Southeast European Law Enforcement Center (SELEC), OSCE, the Criminal Information Center for Combating Drugs of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, SCO, BKBOP, ATC, CIS Border Troops Commanders Council, EAG, the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs of the U.S. Department of State, the Drug Enforcement Administration of the U.S. Department of Justice, and others).
Memorandums on cooperation and interaction have been signed between CARICC and the CIS Anti-Terrorism Center, the World Customs Organization, INTERPOL (on cooperation regarding direct access to and use of INTERPOL’s police information system), the SCO Secretariat and its Regional Anti-Terrorist Structure (RATS), the Council of CIS Border Troops Commanders, and the UN Development Programme in Kazakhstan.