Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Sunday called for consuming countries to fight illegal drug use and for those that allow arms exports to clamp down.

Speaking at a press conference on the sidelines of the Americas Summit here, Calderon said, "I underlined the need for intensifying action to reduce drug consumption in the nations that are mostly consumers, especially the United States," he said. " Also to halt the trafficking of arms to our nations, and the money laundering that boosts criminals' violence and power."

The summit, at the request of Guatemala, agreed to discuss the appropriateness of the region's drug trafficking policies, and decided that the Organization of American States secretariat should take on the task of formulating the best way of tackling the situation using relevant data.

"The intention is to carry out a diagnosis of alternatives including the implications, costs and benefits of several possible policy options that might be implemented," he said.

According to Calderon, he had also met with 10 Caribbean countries and would seek to represent their interests at the G20 meeting which Mexico will host in Los Cabos in June.