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 …
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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 …
CND Intersessional Meeting – Wednesday 16th October 2013
The United Nations (UN) member states are currently working on a ‘Joint Ministerial Statement’ to review progress and challenges in international drug control since the agreement of a Political Declaration on drugs in 2009. The Statement will be released in March. This intersessional meeting was another opportunity for member state delegations to discuss and recommend …
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 L5: Enhancing international cooperation to combat illicit drug trafficking and other criminal activities related to drugs in West Africa
The full text of the resolution is available here. The title and preambular sections of the resolution were adopted with minor comments. OP1: France makes a small linguistic correction in the text, which was agreed in informals. OP5: Colombia is not comfortable with the wording regarding the reference to “countries of origin and countries of …
Committee of the Whole – Resolution L16: United Nations Guiding Principles on Alternative Development
Sponsored by: Colombia, Japan, Peru and Thailand You can download the text here Discussion around small changes in the title with the sponsors insisting to keep title as it is. Pre ample text: Some small text included on “eradicating illicit cultivation of narcotic plants.” Iran and Russia keen to include eradication as alternative development measure Long discussion around inducing “eradication” as some member …