Mexico: We meet because of our interest to tackle the World Drug Problem. Aware of the progress made so far, Mexico would like to strengthen the work of the CND in ordinary meetings, subsidiaries and intersessional. For Mexico it is important to replicate the good practice of this process. The implementation of the UNGASS document is …
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Side Event: Saving Lives by Ending the Drug War
Panel: Ann Fordham, Brun González, Jane Slater, Jindřich Vobořil, Mary Catherine Alvarez, Maricela Orozco Montalvo, Suzanne Sharkey, Peter Muyshondt Jindřich Vobořil: Welcome to our event. I am the National Drug Coordinator for the Czech Republic. We combined different ways of approaching this issue. We will start with some real life stories first of all. Jane …
Special Event, 22nd June: Vienna Launch of the World Drug Report
The Ambassador of Norway (CND Chair): Today is an important day, when we can be grateful for all of the good work done under the conventions, and for the hard work being done around the world. I am also grateful for the work of UNODC and the sterling work of civil society, who we have …
Plenary: Agenda Item 13
Resolution L2 Chair: We will now approve L2 Pakistan: We are happy the CND has adopted a resolution for the most affected states and enhance capacity building for those so affected. Chair: Any co sponsors? Argentina, Philipines, US, Serbia, and Malaysia, Resolution L3 Chair: Next resolution is L3 on the governance and final situation of the …
Plenary – Agenda Item 12
National Association Against Drugs – Drug Policy Futures. We reject the simple dichotomy of the war on drugs and legal regulation. Regulation does not sit in the international conventions, and we ask the member states do not take up legalisation as it is against the conventions. Legalisation of alcohol and tobacco has been a public …
Side Event: Cannabis and the Conventions: Aftermath of UNGASS
Organized by the Washington Office on Latin America, the Global Drug Policy Observatory, the Transnational Institute, the Transform Drug Policy Foundation and the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network. John Walsh Washington Office of Latin America (WOLA) – Moderator: The Outcome Document sought to give states flexibility, and now 1 in 5 Americans live in an area …