More than 100 representatives from around the world gathered here Thursday to commemorate the centennial anniversary of the first international meeting on drug prohibition and to show their resolve in drug control in the new century.

The delegates came from the 13 nations that originally attended the International Opium Commission, the first international anti-drug meeting convened in February 1909 in Shanghai. It included China, the United States, Germany, Britain and others.

Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam in the "Golden Triangle" also sent representatives to the meeting Thursday.

Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Antonio Maria Costa and President of International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) Hamid Ghodse, as well as diplomatic envoys of some nations to China also attended the meeting.

Source: Xinhua