The World Drug Report (WDR) 2026 Chair: Opening Remarks UNODC — Anja Busse, Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section, UNODC: …and, in particular, the Annual Report Questionnaire focal points for their invaluable contributions on this. This year, we also conducted fieldwork—not for the first time, but still quite unusually— to complement the analysis presented in the …
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Plenary – Monday morning session
Item 1. Election of Officers Chair: Chair: It’s a great honour to welcome you to the 69th session of the CND and for me to chair the CND. It’s the first time that Armenia holds the chair over CND and I would like to thank you for the support and trust. No country can tackle the …
CND Chair’s Special Event: Commemoration of World Drug Day and launch of the World Drug Report 2025
Chair: “Very good afternoon, everyone. Excellence Ambassador Jose Antonio Zabelgochia, chair of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, our sister commission ambassadors, excellencies, distinguished delegates, colleagues, and friends, it is my honour to open this special event of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs to mark the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit …
Plenary – Thursday afternoon session
Item 9. Contributions by the Commission to the work of the Economic and Social Council, including follow-up to and review and implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Secretary: As you were saying, Mr. Chair, the ECOSOC coordination session was held in february and we supported the chair of the CND in his presentation …
Committee of the Whole – Thursday morning session
L6 Strengthening the global drug control framework: a path to effective implementation E/CN.7/2025/L.6 Colombia: we updated the document to reflect all recent agreements from last night, we are still working hard with delegations to find consensus across the document Chair: We start with deliberating the title, the floor is open. Sudan: it was only …
Opening of the 68th Session of the CND
Item 1. Election of officers CND Chair. It’s an honour to welcome you to the 68th session of the CND. I thank all my colleagues at the extended bureau and secretariat. With over 2,000 participants, this is one of the largest CNDs. The CND can be followed in Boardroom A and UN Web TV. The …