Chair: Welcome. Today, to promote participation, we are conducting this meeting in a hybrid format. I welcome all our panelists, youth ambassadors, and the 26 registered speakers. WDR is historically launched on World Drug Day which is a very important day for us all to advance SDGs and build back better. The theme this year …
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Committee of the Whole L7. Intensifying efforts to address the proliferation of uncontrolled and designer precursors used in the illicit manufacture of drugs
Secretariat: There will be an informal on L5 in a hybrid format on BR-A. L7 – Technical amendment. On OP12 & 13 – There is in square brackets ‘or trafficking’. There was an omission to delete this part. Just checking with the CoW. Ok, we can continue. United States: We engaged in consultations, not in …
Committee of the Whole L5 Promoting comprehensive and scientific evidence-based early prevention
Chair: We still have a lot of work to do – I hope you’ve had a decent rest and that we can make some progress. Slovenia: Para on gender in OP5 & OP9. Alternative para by Egypt – we are close to consensus. Apparently OP9 is too general. We propose delete end of OP5, keep …
Committee of the Whole Resolution L5. Promoting comprehensive and scientific evidence-based early prevention
PM PP13bis Chair: Agreed in COW. OP3 Iran: the capital accepts. Chair: Agreed in COW. OP6 and OP7 Chair: Agreed in COW. PP11 Slovenia: Added addition of Australia to ‘prevention science’. Brackets on ‘adverse childhood experiences’ reservation by Venezuela but expressed flexibility. Tackle this first to remove the brackets. Venezuela: We have asked for further …
Committee of the Whole L.4. Strengthening international cooperation to comprehensively address the links between illicit drug trafficking and illicit firearms trafficking
PM Session Secretariat: (housekeeping announcements) Mexico: Had successful informal. Advanced great deal. My suggestion to continue the text in the CoW. Move to paras which have been agreed then go back to other issues. P1 Chair: Agreed in CoW. OP3 Chair: Agreed in CoW. OP4bis Iran: Thank Mexico for their efforts. We are not happy …
Committee of the Whole. Resolution L.5. Promoting comprehensive and scientific evidence-based early prevention (continued)
Chair: Good Morning. We begin with L5. Slovenia: We were able to agree on a couple of PPs and OP4 in informals. Chair: Very well, we start with OP4 then. I see no comments, agreed. OP5, OP6 Chair: Agreed. Fantastic. Singapore: In OP6 “drug use initiation among children and youth” when we were discussing this, …