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 …
From Panel Discussions/Roundtables
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 …
Japan National Statement to HLM
‘At the outset allow me to highly recommend Vice Prime Minister of Namibia for her readership and to express my appreciations for the contributions by the UNODC and INCB to this HLM of CND which allows us the opportunity to conduct a review of targets set at special session of UNGASS 1998. As you know, …
Sudan Statement to the Demand Reduction Round Table
‘In the name of God, the merciful beneficial thank you madame chairperson. Good morning, i wish you well and I very much hope that these discussions with the participation of high level delegations will bring us closer to success in terms of our efforts to counter drugs. Despite the fact that the subject of our …