Organised by the Government of Australia, Canada and Japan and UNODC Global SMART. HE Dr Brendon Hammer (Australia) Thank you all and welcome. In Australia we a seizing increasing amount of ‘ice’ (crystal methamphetamine). We have established the National Ice Taskforce. Dr Justice Tettey (Chief of UNODC Laboratory and Synthetic Program) I will give you …
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Plenary – Agenda item 11: Provisional agenda for the sixty-first session of the Commission
Russia: Discussion of item 8 regarding follow up to UNGASS should be more inclusive and should be attended by an in depth discussion regarding the implementation of 2009 Political Declaration. We have no certainty that it is advisable to split these two issues into two tracks. This discussion should proceed as a single format as …
Plenary – Agenda item 10: Contributions by the Commission to the work of the Economic and Social Council, in line with General Assembly resolution 68/1, including follow-up to and review and implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Chair: Recall that at the 58th Session, we decided to include this standing item on the agenda focusing on contribution to the work of ECOSOC in line with GA resolution 68/1. In accordance, CND has been contributing as appropriate to Council’s work. In the UNGASS Outcome Document, member states welcomed SDGs and noted that efforts to achieve these …
Committee of the Whole – Resolution L.13 Enhancing law enforcement capacity to counter illicit drug trafficking through training (Thursday afternoon)
Draft resolution submitted prior to session. Comments on OP.3 Turkey: Have we passed OP.2? Russia: I’d like to clarify how we reached a compromise on OP.2. Let’s go through the rest and then come back to OP.2. Chair: OP.3 is agreed in the COW. Comments on OP.10 Russia: We’d like to clarify something with secretary of UNODC – is …
Committee of the Whole – Resolution L.8 Intensifying coordination and cooperation among United Nations entities and relevant national sectors, including the health and justice sectors, to target the world drug problem (Thursday afternoon)
Draft resolution as submitted before the session. USA: I believe we’re ready to consider this in the CoW apart from just one suggestion. We had successful informals. We’d like to get agreement on all the other paragraphs before we decide whether the top will say CND or ECOSOC. Chair: All PPs approved by COW. Comments on OP.3quat …
Committee of the Whole – Resolution L.12: Promoting measures to prevent HIV and other blood-borne infections among people who use drugs, and increasing financing for the global HIV/AIDS response and for drug use prevention and drug demand reduction efforts – Continued in Afternoon
Text of resolution as it was written before CND commenced. Noway: Still working on the paragraph. lets move forward and come back to it. OP5 Russia: We discussed with Portugal and we would like a few more words added: after demand reduction initiatives’ add ‘in accordance with national legislation and the three international drug conventions’. …