Australia: We have worked in informals and found compromise on some of the paragraphs. These include preambular paragraphs that acknowledge that ketamine is a WHO essential medicine, and recalls resolution 57/10 on ketamine trafficking. So open the floor for comments on these. China: Add “trafficking” and “assess the extent of this problem at the national, …
India
Agenda Item 7: World situation with regard to drug trafficking and recommendations of the subsidiary bodies of the Commission
Chair: The 10th meeting is now open. Consideration of Item of 7 – Drug Trafficking. Documents to be considered: E/CN.7/2016/5 E/CN.7/2016/10 The UNODC will now present a report on global illicit drug prevalence You can read the report here. UNODC: My introduction adds to the report shared with you by the chair, with some additions. …
Resolution L13. Promotion of measures, including voluntary cooperation and timely and effective legislative, regulatory, administrative, and operational responses to target new psychoactive substances, amphetamine-type stimulants, including methamphetamine, and diversion of their precursors
Chair (Norway): Plan is to close L13 on new psychoactive substances, it is a long resolution (a merger of three previous drafts – L6, L7 and L9). We will see the text now after several informals, it is being copied and circulated. Now sponsored by Australia, Belarus, Japan, Tajikistan and USA Operative Paragraphs 1, 2 …
Agenda Item 3: Policy directives to the drug programme of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and strengthening the drug programme and the role of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs as its governing body, including administrative, budgetary and strategic management questions
(a) Work of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and policy directives; (b) Role of the Commission as the governing body of the drug programme of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in the scope of control of substances (i) Strengthening the drug programme of the United Nations Office on Drugs …
Agenda Item 5. Implementation of the Political Declaration and Plan of Action on International Cooperation towards an Integrated and Balanced Strategy to Counter the World Drug Problem UNGASS 2016
Documents: E/CN.7/2016/2-E/CN.15/2016/2 E/CN.7/2016/4 E/CN.7/2016/5 E/CN.7/2016/6 E/CN.7/2016/7 E/CN.7/2016/8 E/CN.7/2016/11 E/CN.7/2016/13 E/CN.7/2016/14 E/CN.7/2016/CRP.3 (a) Demand reduction and related measures; Aldo Lale-Demoz, UNODC: Let me testify to members states the achievements that are available to us. Let me show how I have made notable achievements. The rationale for including health care and treatments are provable. We must move …
CND Intersessional – 24 February 2016
Chairs of CND and UNGASS Preparations open with information on logistics and procedures for the CND. Speaking time at the opening session will be limited. 10 draft resolutions have been received, as well as some additional scheduling recommendations. For the UNGASS, negotiations on the outcome document are ongoing and being held in “informal informals” between …