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Russia:
USA: We ask to ask domestic legislation domestic law
OP1 , OP2
Agreed in CoW.
OP7
Agreed in CoW.
Poland: Can we see the paras with no agreement?
PP5
Chair: Can we remove Iran´s reservation?
Iran: Yes.
Agreed in CoW.
PP8
Iran: We need some time on this.
PP9
Iran: There is something kept from previous language before the compromise, so we added “mutually agreed basis” but it is now here without “transfer of technology”
USA: “technology” to be replaced with some other formulation but technology without voluntary and usually greed basis for us is unacceptable.
Chair: Is it possible to include both suggestions?
Iran: This comes from a resolution adopted by consensus. The formulation came from “technological transfer” not “technological know-how” or anything like that so that is new to us and we would need to consider. Now, we need to put reservation.
Chair: I appreciate you checking that in a rapid manner.
OP1
China: We suggested removing certain parts but in the Vienna-spirit, we can compromise.
Chair: Appreciated. Can we also agree on the beginning of the text?
Iran: We have been showing a lot of flexibility and I just saw the objection of the USA and with a maximum approach, they are getting what they want but we cannot go along with that.
Chair: Can we agree starting the para with “encourages”?
USA: I would defer to the sponsor but I would not be able to agree with “encourages as they deem necessary”
Chair: Sponsors, encourage instead of urge?
Poland: Sure.
Chair: Like this without “as deemed necessary” acceptable to Iran?
Iran: We take this very seriously so national laws and regulations we see as important to be brought into the caveat. According to national laws and regulations – it is a fact that MS need to take priority of those.
Chair: Can Iran live with this para including the deletions?
Iran: We cannot agree. We have a new suggestion: MS to “prioritize to take necessary efforts with a view to…”
Chair: is this acceptable to everyone?
USA: I dont think this current formulation is grammatically correct so I would refer back to you and the sponsors to take the lead.
Chair: I think it is correct as “ Encourages all MS to take the necessary efforts with…”
USA: If you could remove “with a view”
Poland: That is our suggestion too.
Iran: Then we have an other suggestion “aimed at promoting” to be added after “necessary efforts”.
Poland: This is now getting weak. We ask to keep the current form without “aimed at” and just “efforts to promote”. If we have no consensus on this, we can just proceed further.
Chair: So you do not want to go along with this proposal of Iran
Poland: not this one.
Iran: The reason is that it does not work for us that we ask MS what to do and not to do. If this caveat is not in place, it is a direct request, we are encouraging them. So we cannot go along with that.
Chair: Okay so we have an other paragraph that cannot be agreed on. Let us proceed with the ones that we can agree on.
PP8
Chair: Delegations requested we wait for you to join the room this morning before we agree on this para, Ambassador. What say you?
Iran: We can drop our suggestion so to move forward.
Chair: Thank you for your flexibility and I understand nothing is agreed aúntil everything is agreed, but can we provisionally agree on this pp? Agreed in CoW.
PP9
Chair: The only remaining notes are by USA and Iran – I turn to you.
UK: Let me offer a solution “recognizing the importance of providing technical assistance, equipments and necessary training”
USA: Can we go back to PP8? Are the words “as appropriate” now deleted? I might have misheard the Ambassador – apologies.
Chair: The deletion of “as appropriate” was requested by Iran.
USA: I believe we requested these words.
Chair: So we are back to this preamble – PP9.
Iran: We discussed this yesterday at length, we insist.
Chair: Okay we move back to the suggestion of UK as it pertains to PP9. IS this acceptable to everyone?
UK: Just to ensure my proposal is correctly reflected – it was an attempt to accommodate Iran´s proposal so it should read “recognizing the importance of providing technical assistance, equipments, technology and necessary training”.
USA: We can accept this formulation if we keep “as appropriate” in the previous paragraph.
Chair: Is this combination acceptable to Iran? I see it is not.
Iran: Excellency, it is about the balance of the text. Now we are recognizing the importance only, colleagues are watering the text down. That is a no for us.
Chair: So no agreement on this PP. Sponsors, maybe we can look at OP4?
OP4
USA: A function of UNODC is described here and we don’t believe they have this, so we propose breaking the text up and say “with the support of UNODC and INCB and…” and then at the end, “with the support of INTERPOL” and strike UNODC please.
Finland: We confirm that the proposal from the USA is acceptable – as it was our suggestion initially.
Chair: Agreed in CoW?
Iran: We understand this is a voluntary basis as is named in previous paras, so if not a legal obligation, it should be suggested strongly. Legally speaking it is not correct that we are here calling on the members but we are flexible.
USA: I think you need to remove a comma there. Then I don’t know if It’s appropriate to say the World Customs Organisation?
Chair: You are the native speaker, you should tell us. Okay, so this is agreed.
OP9
USA: Unfortunately, we are not able to agree to this. We will not be able to join consensus on anything mentioning the SDGs.
Finland: We insist on retaining it.
Argentina: We support the USA.
Sweden: We would also like to see this para to be retained.
Chair: I see a lot of delegations raised their nameplates and I think I know why. What do the sponsors want to do about this?
Poland: Yes, we understand there is no consensus so we are okay proceeding further without agreement in the CoW.
Chair: Yes, views have been already marked and registered. I conclude our deliberations on this resolution. As is the case with all others, it will be moved to the Plenary for vote.
Poland: I thank you for your work and everyone’s participation.
Chair: Thank you and I also thank everyone. I thank the Secretariat as well for all their support. See you at the plenary.