Chair: Welcome. In terms of good health and well being, at a time when all over the world we are facing serious challenge due to the COVID19 and its resulting restrictions, my best wishes from our team here. Before we proceed forward in today’s important meeting on the agenda, I would like to give the …
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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 …
Committe of the Whole (Thursday afternoon) L5. Promoting the involvement of youth in drug prevention efforts
Chair: I see the title is agreed on informals. I see no objections therefore agreed CoW. We proceed with PP “Recalling the UN Youth Strategy 2030..” Russia: We propose deletion of “will guide” and replace with ”informs the efforts of… including UNODC” and add “efforts”. Chair: I see no objection therefore agreed CoW. We proceed …
Committee of the Whole (Thursday afternoon) L2. Intensifying efforts to combat the world drug problem through effective partnerships with the private sector
-L2- Chair: I hear OP1 was agreed at the informals. I see there are no more comments, so agreed CoW. OP2 also agreed CoW. OP3bis already agreed at informals. No more comments, therefore agreed CoW. OP11 also agreed at informals. No more comments, therefore agreed CoW. OP13 agreed at informals, therefore agreed CoW. PP6bis also …
Side Event: Accelerating support for increasing access to controlled medicines while preventing diversion and non-medical use
Organized by Australia, Belgium, Canada, El Salvador and the Russian Federation, and European Union, UNODC Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section, Union for International Cancer Control, Vienna NGO Committee on Drugs and World Health Organization Miwa Kato, UNODC 80% of world defines opioid crises as not having access to opioids. How do we work this out …
Committee of the Whole (Thursday morning) L4. Promoting awareness-raising, education and training as part of a comprehensive approach to ensuring access to and the availability of controlled substances for medical and scientific purposes and improving their rational use
EC77/2020/L4 Belgium:There are some paras where the wording is ‘non-stigma’. A couple of paras have been agreed in informals pending on the solution of non-stigmatisation. Chair: Canada was the state proposing language on stigma Canada: If we are going to focus on PPs first we did have discussions during informals. Linking PP that references stigma …