Alternative development; regional, interregional and international cooperation on development-oriented balanced drug control policy; addressing socioeconomic issues (i) Drugs, addressing socioeconomic issues and fostering alternative development, including preventive alternative development; (ii) Enhancing regional, interregional and international cooperation on development-oriented, balanced drug control policy; Co-Chair President Ollanta Humala of Peru: Good afternoon, it is an …
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UNGASS roundtable 4: New challenges, threats and realities
Co-chair 1: Good morning, we will start. Let me call the 4th round table on the world drug problem. Let me take this opportunity to cordially welcome all of you to the deliberation today. The round-table is entitled: Cross-cutting issues, new challenges, threats and realities. I read Forbes magazine last night, it was stressed last …
UNGASS Roundtable 2: Supply reduction and related measures
Chair: Opens session. We seek to put through a number of questions on how to enhance cooperation, and we seek to look at the obstacles that apply to this. How can we improve the capacity of different entities to face new challenges, including the use of the internet in trafficking drugs? A new question that can …
Thirtieth special session of the General Assembly on the world drug problem (2nd plenary meeting)
The full statements delivered by member states during the UNGASS general debate are available here. Chair: We will resume the agenda. India: This is an Historic special session. We are meeting after 2009 political declaration, just months after we adopted SDPs. The Drug problem impacts our ability to achieve this agenda. The three conventions have …
Resolution L13. Promotion of measures, including voluntary cooperation and timely and effective legislative, regulatory, and administrative responses to target new psychoactive substances, amphetamine-type stimulants and precursors
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, …
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. …