MORNING SESSION Chair (Ambassador Khaled Shamaa, Egypt) : He welcomes to the 6th Inter-Sessional meeting of the CND during its 57th session. As part of his role as Chair of the CND, he reported to the Third Committee of the General Assembly on the agenda item in international drug control, in particular on the work of the …
Belarus
High Level Segment – Statement by Belarus
Drug problem a major global issue. Knows no borders. No major change at global level despite all efforts to control. Increase in illegal poppy cultivation and NPS. Upcoming UNGASS note relevance of recommendations in 2009 PD and relevance of existing drug control system. Belarus is party to all main anti-drug conventions. Countering drug trafficking a …
Committee of the Whole – Resolution L14
Resolution L14: Follow-up to the Third Ministerial Conference of the Paris Pact Partners on Combating Illicit Traffic in Opiates Originating in Afghanistan. Sponsored by Australia, Belarus, France, Kyrgyzstan, Norway, Russian Federation and Thailand. Delivery of tech assistance, 38,000 dollars for the report 16 pages in 6 languages. No additional appropriation of funds. Co-sponsors: Mexico Denmark …
Committee of the Whole – Resolution L11
Resolution E/Cnd/2010/L11 – Title: Paris Pact Initiative Russian Federation Russian Federation sometime ago covened a conference…we felt the covening of such a conference should give additional impetus, in particular to combating the illicit status of opiates, we believe this is all the more… timely as the UN has an obligation in a number of spheres including …
CND day 2 – Belarus plenary statement on effective drug prevention interventions
The efforts to raise awareness on drug abuse are essential in our national drug strategy, and should focus on the most vulnerable groups. It must cover many institutions. civic society work is also very important. Conclusions of investigations on the dangers of narcotics must be made available to the public, and there must also be …
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 …