Chair: Good morning distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen. It is a great honour for me as chair of the CND to welcome you to the reconvened 63rd session of the Commission. I would like to start our meeting today with a few organisational arrangements. As you are aware, the World Health Organisation has declared the …
From Plenary Sessions
Plenary- Item 12. Adoption of the report of the Commission on its sixty-third session
Dominka Krois (Vice Chair): We had very successful meetings. The session was closed yesterday before 6pm. We managed to adopt all 5 resolutions. Member states showed constructive spirit. Many thanks to all delegates. Chair: Thank you for your work. I request any comments relating to editorial and translation matters to provide these in writing directly …
Plenary: Item 10- Provisional agenda for the sixty-fourth session of the Commission & Item 11. Other business
Chair: during the extended bureau meetings it was decided to put forward the draft agenda as contained in the document E/CN7/2020/L9. Can we invite the commission to approve the agenda of the document? […] Since there is no objection, the agenda is adopted. With this now we move to consideration item 11 – other matters. …
Plenary: Item 9- Contributions by the Commission to the work of the Economic and Social Council, in line with General Assembly resolution 72/305, including follow-up to and review and implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Chair: The commission decided to include this standing item on the agenda focusing on Economic and Social Council. The commission has been contributing as appropriate to the council’s work. In the 2019 Ministerial Declaration, member states reiterated the efforts to achieve SDGs were complementary and mutually reinforcing. In September 2019, heads of states gathered in …
Plenary: Item 8. Recommendations of the subsidiary bodies of the Commission
Chair: I now invite secretariat from the governing body to make remarks. Secretariat: Work of subsidiary bodies undertaken in 2019. Was a year where we had all 5 meetings. The meeting in Lisbon in July was the first meeting ever that was at the opening and had both the Minister of Justice and Health. Both …
Plenary: Item 7. Inter-agency cooperation and coordination of efforts in addressing and countering the world drug problem
Chair: …Co-operation also takes place among inter-governmental bodies. The Commission seeks to strengthen horizontal cooperation. More information on this matter is contained in the conference paper E/CN7/2020/CRP-5, providing an overview of inter-agency cooperation of efforts. The Commission also has a note by the Secretariat on promoting coordination and alignment of decisions by the INCB, and the programme on HIV/AIDs, …