Chair: I propose we move to L5. Finland to take the floor. Let us start on the title. Any comments? Can we move to the preambular paragraphs? Finland: I would like to point out we held informal meetings on this resolution with 15 countries. There are only a few amendments within the text and they …
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Committee of the Whole (Tuesday Morning) – Resolution L.4 Strengthening efforts to prevent drug use in educational settings
Pakistan: Informals are from 11:30 to 1:30. We were told that Belarus has co-signed the list of co-sponsors. We will start from OP3. we can clean this paragraph while keeping “drug user/ abuser”. US: Just a question about regarding national stakeholders, I would think we’d want international stakeholder to be available if they needed …
Plenary: Opening of the sixty-first Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs
Chair Welcome to the 61st CND! All debates will be on the CND website. Thank you to all delegates who have contributed to past sessions. 1st Item – election of officers: The commission elected Kenya as the 1st Vice Chair. 2nd Vice Chair is Pakistan. The Rapporteur is the Netherlands. Mexico serves as Chair. Can we …
CND Intersessional, 21 February 2018
In preparing for the 61st session of the CND, the first intersessional meeting in 2018 was held on February 21st. The new Chair of CND, Alicia Buenrostro Massieu of Mexico, opened the meeting with a quick recap of the last meetings and confirmed the dates for CND (12-16 March), informal consultations (9 March), and for …
CND 60th Session Reconvened – Thursday, 7 December 2017
Note: As the reconvened meeting is mainly concerned with administrative issues, this blog entry summarises the discussions rather than providing the usual detailed account of every intervention and statement. On Thursday 7th December, the meeting opened with a joint session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) and the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal …
CND Intersessional 17th November: The Way Forward – Preparations for the sixty-second session of the CND in 2019
Bente Angell-Hansen (Norway), CND Chair: This is the day I’ve been looking the most forward to. The question is how do we carry what we have done forward. It’s also a specially good day because the Mexican Ambassador is in the room. On behalf of all of us, we congratulate you on the nomination by GRULAC …