On the UN International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, UNODC and their UN partners coordinated simultaneous launches of their flagship World Drug Report 2015 – in Vienna, Geneva and New York. Member states had received a technical briefing about the report last week, so this event was billed as a CND Special Session …
Lebanon
CND Plenary Day 1 – Other matters arising from the international drug control treaties
Ecuador Ecuador is attending the CND with a feeling of concern regarding existing drug policy. Time has come to look around the social phenomenon of drugs, use and control. We are setting up a new vision on social, cultural and historical visions. Based on our constitution, drug use is a public health problem and users …
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 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 …
Committee of the Whole – Resolution L13
Resolution L13 Sponsors: Australia, Denmark (EU) Ecuador (LA) Egypt, Norway Philippines USA Budgetary implications 7.7mil to develop strategies to develop best practices on drug prevention for 25 countries and implementation. Adopted: Venezuela statement: we are concerned in the language in docs adopted, the terms “use of drugs” “use of illicit drugs”, and “abuse of drugs” …
Committee of the Whole – Resolution L11
L11 Promotion of the use of a global stamp symbolizing alternative development, including preventive development, as a mechanism facilitating and stimulating the trade in products from areas affected by and vulnerable to the world drug problem Sponsors: Bolivia Ecuador Peru Thailand No budgetary implication: Co sponsors – Lebanon, Venezuela Nicaragua Nigeria Philip Denmark (EU) Uruguay …