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High Level Segment – Statement by Ghana

Ghana. Threat from NPS to Ghana and all vulnerable countries. First.  Demand reduction strategy, comprehensive approach, engagement with national stakeholders to improve skills and enhance capacity.  Mainstream community participation.  Pool of resources for strategic advice.  Enhance prevention, treatment and rehabilitation.  Strengthen regime for treatment and rehab of drug dependent.  Progress being made.  Drug abuse sensitization …

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Money Laundering Roundtable (part 1)

Chair: opens meeting and lays down the rules of the roundtable. Full title is “international cooperation: countering money-laundering and promoting judicial cooperation”. Secretariat: Money laundering is a problem connected to the international trade in drugs. More countries criminalised money laundering in 2013 than in 2012. Many banks have started conducting better checks on accounts, and keeping …

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Supply Reduction Roundtable Part 3

Egypt. Has felt magnitude of threat at all levels.  Comprehensive strategy to counter.  Liquidation of criminal rings.  Combating precursors and chemical drugs.  Have been making every effort to combat illicit cultivaton of all drugs including opium.  Have also been combating production of precursors and all chemical drugs.  Egypt as transit country for Afghanistan drugs.  Developing …

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Plenary opening session by Ghana

Common and shared responsibility is the core principle of international law. There is widespread recognition that drugs and organised crime retard the development goals. We have put together legislation in the 1990s on drugs control and enforcement. Since then, criminal networking has developed fast. Ghana remains committed to the principles of the UN on drug …

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Committee of the Whole – Resolution L9

Developing an international electronic import and export authorisation system for licit trade of controlled substances. Sponsors: Croatia, Denmark on behalf of the EU, Albania, United States. Amendment to operative paragraph 2, the rest of text is deleted as the same text is contained in operative paragraph 6. Budgetary Implications 506,000 dollars to develop deploy and …

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