Chairperson: welcomes everyone to the 57th session of the CND. Agenda is divided into operational and normative segments. Explains the rules  how how the rest of the week will work. Outlines the programme. Committee of the Whole is where draft resolutions will be debated. There are 12 Can only work within times and cannot go longer, so urges members to work efficiently so we can finish on Friday.

Considering Item 12: Policy directives to the drug programme of the United Nations Office on
Drugs and Crime and strengthening the drug programme and the role of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs as its governing body, including administrative, budgetary and strategic management questions; (a) Work of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and policy directives;
(b) Role of the Commission as the governing body of the drug programme of the United Nations
Office on Drugs and Crime:
(i) Strengthening the drug programme of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime;
(ii) Administrative, budgetary and strategic management questions.

Elected representatives from Iran and Spain as co-chairs of the working group on these.