Venezuelan Minister of Foreign Affairs Nicolás Maduro reasserted on Friday during the regional anti-drug summit held in the Colombian city of Cartagena President Hugo Chávez's willingness to strengthen cooperation in counter-narcotics efforts.

It is a commitment against production, traffic and consumption "in our hemisphere and worldwide," said Maduro during his presentation as Chávez's representative during the meeting that gathers the heads of state of six Latin American and Caribbean countries.

"Nowadays, drugs pose a very serious threat to the future of humankind," said Maduro.

States should face this threat with a very clear strategy; some have talked about fighting against drug traffic. Sure enough, it is a war against a superpower. We continuously strive to build new formulas and paradigms to combat this scourge," he added.

In Venezuela, said the minister, "we have strived to outline a national sovereign strategy to fight drug traffic."