Hungary fully associates itself with the European statement made earlier. We believe in a balanced approach between demand and supply reduction interventions. We believe that an integrated balanced and multi disciplinary approach is the only effective way of tackling the drug problem. We emphasise the importance of addressing the health and social consequences of drug …
From High Level Segment
Cyprus National Speech to HLM
I would like to note that the republic of Cyprus fully aligns itself with the statement of Czech republic. My country believes that it is very important to recognise the progress made since 1998. At the same time we must acknowledge that new challenges have arisen during the past 10 years that require joint responses. …
Lebanon National Speech to HLM
Once again we find ourselves at this annual session to assess the state of drugs in the world and draw plans capable of circumscribing the scourge that besets all of mankind. Lebanon is deeply committed to implement the conventions and we are concerned that only cooperation amongst states can achieve this. This is why Lebanon …
Sri Lanka National Speech to HLM
Originally, for us, cannabis was not a social problem, though it was used in medicine after the narcotic element was taken out. But by the mid 1980s it was considered a major social problem and led us to establish the narcotic drug control board. International drug control has just completed a century of activity since …
Spain Speech to the HLM
‘The national narcotics plan has for the last 20 years been helping us to fight to reduce consumption of narcotic substances and it has begun to decline. If you look at the data in consumption for the last 12 months that we get on our home survey, we can see that consumption of cannabis and …
Belarus Speech to the HLM
‘Let me start with a quote. The Russian writer with Byelorussian roots Dostoyevsky, an accepted expert on the human soul said ‘Nothing is more easy to denounce than evil, nothing is more difficult than to understand it.’ The last century has enabled us to accumulate combined expertise and knowledge from 3 international conventions adopted in …