Measures to support African States in their efforts to combat the world drug problem Kenya: Wants to delete paragraph 8, which is a delete of paragraph 5. We agreed to drop the setting up of a fund to support African States, but we hope that this will be discussed in the future. Lebanon: On behalf …
Lebanon
CND day 4 – Plenary: Lebanon
Lebanese society suffer from drug control resulting from the activities of oragnzied criminal groups and exploit our country with their means; there is a hope that we will be progressed in near future; we use comprehensive international strategy to balance available means and threats we face with criminal groupos; we need to identify the reasons …
CND day 1 Round table on joint responsibility: Lebanon statement
This round table needs to reach practical solutions to combat drug use and the drug trade. We need to reduce demand and supply and not just focus on drug treatment. There are such high levels of cultivation and drug use that we need to tackle these two basic problems. These producer countries needs help from …
CND Day 5 – Lebanon on illicit drug traffic and supply and related measures
Along with other states Lebanon is joining the community seeking to develop a joint strategy. Both demand and supply must be focused on. Criminal elements try to distract our attention against the root causes of these problems, which are supply and the profits to traffickers. The delegate asked if failure of response could be attributed …
CND Day 2 – Lebanon on the importance of research and the collection, reporting and analysis of data
Supports limiting number of questions on the UN questionnaires and suggested making sure these are ‘vital’ questions. There should be a harmonious format and perhaps also a secured Internet connection that will allow for the pooling of counter-narcotics information. This could allow for more transparency and analytical and statistical techniques. Perhaps it at least could …
CND Day 2 – Plenary statement by Lebanon on regional and interregional cooperation
There is a need to create a control centre on the regional level that would be responsible for control of trafficking in narcotic drugs and exchange of information. Prevention at the borders is required to prevent trafficking. Lebanon would also like to see a measure of harmony in the tools used and those used to …