Chair: Good Morning. Yesterday we had a fruitful discussion on the issues of the consequences and risk associated with non medical use of drugs. Today we will be discussing the low availability of nationally controlled substances for medical and scientific purposes, including for the relief of pain and palliative care. Before we start a discussion, …
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Side Event / Launch of the Shadow Report for the Midterm Review of the 2019 Ministerial Declaration on Drugs
Ann Fordham, IDPC: Good afternoon and welcome to this significant event, titled “Are we on track?” where the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC) will be presenting our shadow report for the midterm review of the 2019 Ministerial Declaration on Drugs. We are honored to have the author of the report and several esteemed speakers who …
CND Thematic Discussions // Session 8 – High transmission of HIV, HCV and other blood-borne diseases associated with drug use
Presenter 1, UNODC: Thank you, Mr. Chair, excellencies, ladies, and gentlemen. I will briefly discuss the lessons learned in the actual UNODC Partnership Project addressing drug use issues in Afghanistan amid the continuing humanitarian crisis. The project received funding support from the European Union for the implementation period 2023 to 2026. Addressing existing fragilities, including …
Plenary Item 13. Adoption of the report of the Commission on its sixty-sixth session
17/3/2023, Friday 15:00 Chair: Please be seated. Good afternoon. Let’s now turn to consider item 13. I’d like to thank the commissioner of Ghana for chairing the proceedings of the committee of the whole. I’ like to give the floor to Ambassador Johnson to present the resolutions Ambassador: Thank you very much for entrusting me …
Resolution L5. Strengthening information-sharing to increase international scheduling and the implementation of scheduling decisions
16/3/2023, Thursday 15:00 Chair: (opening the afternoon session) USA: We made significant progress in informals and we agreed to approx. 2 PPs and around 8 OPs, but we are happy to go through the numbers. We believe we have 6 or so outstanding paras and the title we did not have any substantial discussions yet. …
Plenary Item 7. Inter-agency cooperation and coordination of efforts in addressing and countering the world drug problem
March 16, Thursday 12:00pm Chair: (Introduction of agenda item 7.) UNODC: (…) The UN Common Position is an attempt by the whole UN system to have a united position on this multifaceted issue, informed by strong research, and deep discussions. This relies on inter-agency collaboration and 8 key principles. I pick the most important to …