VNGOC Chair: Good morning and welcome. CND Chair: My pleasure. I love to meet with Civil Society – as a Mexican, I know how important it is for Civil Society to be present so we can keep doing our homework. As CND Chair, it’s also important to have you here. The role you play at …
From Civil Society Hearings and Informal Dialogues
Informal NGO Dialogue with the UNODC Executive Director
Opening remarks from UNODC ED: It is good to see so many people here, and it means that what we are doing is important. The CND is an important forum. I appreciate Esbjorn’s leadership of VNGOC, and for facilitating this meeting. I also appreciate the Civil Society Task Force that worked for 2016 and must now …
Informal NGO Dialogue with CND Chair and Post-UNGASS Facilitator
Esbjorn Hornberg, VNGOC. We look forward to good conversations. CND Chair. I am very pleased to be here. I want to say that when I came here 2-3 years ago, there were quite a lot of challenges. I was told that a few years ago NGOs used to sit in the interpreters rooms. We have come a …
Informal NGO Dialogue of the UNODC Executive Director, Yuri Fedotov
Esbjorn Hornberg: This is an informal dialogue but we already have all the questions as we had to prepare beforehand. We have grouped the questions into different sections, and will start with a few to Mr Fedotov and then the remainder to UNODC senior management as Mr Fedotov needs to leave early. Fedotov: I want …
Informal Dialogue with the INCB President
Chaired by Esbjörn Hörnberg (VNGOC), and Katherine Pettus (VNGOC). Werner Sipp, INCB: Welcomes the dialogue, which is fruitful and useful. It complements our work during missions. It’s important because many of you work on the field, so you have an experience that we do not have (geographical, thematic, etc.). This is in line with the Conventions, which highlight …
UNGASS: Informal Scientific Network Hearing
This Informal Scientific Network Hearing represents an important follow-up to the first meeting that was held as part of the 58th Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), in Vienna. Member States unanimously recognized, by approving the Resolution 58/7, the importance of the dialogue between the international and scientific community in dealing with the world drug problem. …