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 …
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 …
Supply reduction round table
Chief of sustainable livelihood- UNODC The concept of ALTERNATIVE DEVELOPMENT was recognised in the 1988 convention of the UN article 3. This was reaffirmed 10 yrs later in 1998 during the UN special assembly . And the 2009 political declaration plan of action went further building on the 1988 and 1998 agenda. In 2009 member …
Committee of the Whole – Resolution L14
Resolution L14: Follow-up to the Third Ministerial Conference of the Paris Pact Partners on Combating Illicit Traffic in Opiates Originating in Afghanistan. Sponsored by Australia, Belarus, France, Kyrgyzstan, Norway, Russian Federation and Thailand. Delivery of tech assistance, 38,000 dollars for the report 16 pages in 6 languages. No additional appropriation of funds. Co-sponsors: Mexico Denmark …