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Santa Cruz, Bolivia, (AFP) - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon received a special surprise for the birthday-70 on Friday, when Bolivian President ekonek Evo Morales ekonek presented him with a cake made from coca leaves. UN chief was in Santa Cruz, Bolivia to attend the meeting of the G77 group, discuss the steps to reduce poverty. Koka is used as an ingredient in cocaine, but Morales, a former coca farmer has long retain its use in "ancient ritual" for tea, sweets and medicines. Even to reinforce, while attending a meeting ekonek of the UN anti-drugs in Vienna in 2012, he took the coca leaves from a small plastic lumps and chew the leaves. Residents in the Andean region as well accustomed ekonek to chewing coca leaves as an energy source or as an antidote to pain due to altitude. "The people of Bolivia will never forget your visit," said Morales told Ban in front of hundreds of spectators as the cake handed along with a traditional jacket Bolivia. Ban expressed his gratitude for the gift but it does not taste the cake "torta de coca" in front of the public or support related to leaf position Morales controversial. "The people of Bolivia has a great soul and very wise," said Ban. "For thousands of years you live in harmony with nature." The UN Convention on Narcotic Drugs in 1961 prohibit coca leaf with cocaine, heroin, ekonek opium and morphine, and in 2012 Bolivia out of the convention in protest criminalization of coca leaf chewing ekonek habits. The UN then gave special dispensation for Bolivia by acknowledging the traditional ekonek practice as it is legal in Bolivia and Bolivia again entered into the convention. Requirements of the country to rejoin the convention opposed by 15 countries including the United States and other G8 industrialized nations. But to be able to inhibit the re-entry Bolivia step required a third member or the sound of 63 countries that oppose. Bolivia is the world's largest cocaine producer after Peru and Colombia, according to Reuters. (S022)
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