Chair: Egypt has asked to speak before Agenda Item 8b. Egypt: We are committed to the 3 conventions – they constitute the cornerstone for national policies that combat drugs. The 3 documents are the roadmap to addressing the world drug problem. We fully believe in the balance of efforts to reduce the supply and demand of …
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Committee of the Whole – Resolution L.11: Promoting scientific evidence-based community, family and school programmes and strategies for the purpose of preventing drug use among children and adolescents
https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/LTD/V17/009/01/PDF/V1700901.pdf?OpenElement Belarus: We had two rounds of consultations and have now covered entire text and have reached agreement. Chair: I’d like us to look at title. I don’t see any comments so title is approved. No comments on PP.1. No comments on PP.3 starting with ‘Stressing the importance’. No comments on PP.4. No comments on PP.5 …
CND Plenary: Item 5 Implementation of the Political Declaration and Plan of Action on International Cooperation towards an Integrated and Balanced Strategy to Counter the World Drug Problem (Wednesday)
Youth Forum – Students from Montenegro & Qatar: Students from over 30 countries have come together to express concerns over drug issues, and to try to propose a way forward in what seems like a an impossible goal. Collective ideas from fresh eyes can bring progress. A broad approach is the best way to deal …
Side event: HIV response among people who use drugs: The role of police
Panel: Volodomy Tymoshenko (Ukraine), Ivan Dobryshin (Kazakhstan, Ministry of Internal Affairs), Fariba Soltani (UNODC), Aldo Lale-Demoz (Portugal), Tofik Murshudulu (UNODC), Tatyana Fedorovych (Belarus) Aldo Lale-Demoz. Deep concern about evidence based, meeting SDG with regards HIV, current rends it’s going to be very difficult to meet target, commitment in UNGASS 2016, HIV infections among people who …
CND reconvened 59th session, and special segment on UNGASS 2016 – 30 November 2016
Chair. Let us turn our attention to our agenda for the Reconvened 59th Session. There are no comments on the agenda. We need to deal with a procedural measure. Following the departure of the second and third vice chair of the commission from Vienna, these seats remain vacant. Two new vice chairs, from Brazil and …
General Assembly: Thirtieth Special Session of the General Assembly on the World Drug Problem (4th plenary meeting)
The full statements delivered by member states during the UNGASS general debate are available here. The Special Session will be an important milestone in achieving the goals set in the policy document of 2009 “Political Declaration and Plan of Action on International Cooperation towards an Integrated and Balanced Strategy to Counter the World Drug Problem”, …