Portugese Representative: Is a balanced approach and our policy, and it is well known. We fight the disease not the people that suffer from it.” In general we have had a positive revolution of all indicators. The portuguese govt. The current economic austerity may impact service provision. Marginalised communities are most vulnerable, economic crises might …
Brazil
CND Inter-Sessional – Monday 18th November 2013
The Peruvian Chair expressed his aim to go through all of the paragraphs in order – starting at paragraph 30 (which is where I assume they reached in the informals last week). He asked for member state assistance in doing this. First, Mexico was asked to report back on negotiations for P6 and P10, but …
CND Intersessional Meeting – Monday 5th November 2013
On 5th November 2013, country delegations gathered once again in Vienna for more detailed negotiations on the Joint Ministerial Statement. The Peruvian Chair only circulated a revised draft of the Statement on 30th October, so many member states once again complained about not having enough time to formulate their comments. Importantly, however, the Chair’s new …
Adoption of final report of CND
Chair of the CoW We had before us 16 draft proposals which have been approved by the Committee of the Whole. A full list of the resolutions is available at: http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/commissions/CND/session/56-draft-resolutions.html. There has been a request to consider the draft resolution on Afghanistan first. Resolution E/CN7/2013/L10/REF1 – Strengthening international cooperation in combating illicit opiates originating …
Committee of the Whole – Resolution L8
Promoting Strategies and measures addressing specific needs of women in the context of comprehensive and integrated drug demand reduction programmes and strategies Sponsored by: Albania Croatia Denmark (EU) Israel Philip Thailand Ukraine USA Ecuador (LA) Budgetary implications: $414,000 to organise technical consultations on two topics of resolutions. In $300,000 for advisory services to 15 states …
Committee of the Whole – Resolution L9: Developing an international electronic import and export authorization system for licit trade in controlled substance
Resolution can be read here: http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/LTD/V12/514/56/PDF/V1251456.pdf?OpenElement Questions are raised about what the financial burden’s on member states will be? and whether there is capacity building assistance. Further comments are made about how this system should take into account the domestic requirements of member states and proposes new paragraph on this issue where UNODC should assist …