秘鲁解除古柯种植禁令
The Peruvian government says it has suspended coca eradication efforts in an area where much coca is grown.
秘鲁政府称，已经解除国内某地禁止种植古柯的禁令。
The Huallaga valley is Peru's second largest coca producing region
He said previous eradication efforts had had little effect.
Analysts said the move raised concerns about Peru's commitment to the fight against illegal coca production.
Peru's President Ollanta Humala, who came to office on 28 July, spoke in his election manifesto（宣言，声明） of decriminalising coca farmers and even the low-level cocaine processors and smugglers.
But Mr Soberon told AFP the suspension was only temporary and not unusual.
"In every country - in Afghanistan, in Colombia, in Bolivia, in Mexico - it is normal to have these pauses to do the necessary evaluation of what has happened, to correct mistakes," he said.
But the Colombian anti-narcotics police said they had not halted their eradication programme since its inception in 1994.
"The fight against the (illicit) crops is permanent and continuous, with the participation of the military, the police, the Ministry of the Interior, the National Narcotics Office and the Presidency," an anti-narcotics official said.
Sources close to Mexico's anti-drugs fight also denied having stopped their efforts to destroy illicit crops, saying there had been a temporary slow-down due to the lack of equipment in the early 2000s but never a complete halt.