Lithuania

Side event: Civil society and international drug policy in the context of the agenda for 2030

Rokas Bernotas, Ambassador of Lithuania. Remind that UNGASS outcome document states that agenda 200 is complementary to addressing the world drug problem. Demand reduction, respect for human rights, support treatment and recovery, need to involve civil society. Supply side responses affect poor communities the most. Importance for alternative development solutions for Afghanistan, mostly semi-arid, alternative …

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Special Event: Increasing Access to controlled drugs Post-UNGASS

Organized by the Governments of Australia, Belgium, Italy, Lithuania and Norway, the UNODC Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation Section, the International Narcotics Control Board, the World Health Organization, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the Union for International Cancer Control, the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care, Human Rights Watch, and the Vienna and New York …

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Side Event: Resolving the Global Crisis of Untreated Pain by Improving Access to Controlled Medicines within the Framework of the SDGs

Marie-Paule Kieny, WHO: Emphasize that access to essential medicines is a fundamental pillar. Not nearly enough focus has been paid to access to essential medicines. One of the most important medicines, morphine, is emblematic of the fight to ensure access of medicines. Considered the gold standard for pain relief, yet more than 5 billion people …

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Resolution L8. Supporting Public Health and Justice System Collaboration in Providing Alternative Sentences for Drug Involved Offenders

United states. Very productive informals.  Many delegations and good spirit of compromise.  Title.  Supporting the collaboration of public health and justice authorities …. o pursue alternative measures to conviction or punishment..  NO comments. PP 1.. no comments.   PP2. Aware that substance use disorders…No comments.   PP3.  Recalling GA resolution 69 192.  No comments.   …

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Resolution L.4: Supporting the availability, accessibility and diversity of evidence-based treatment and care for young people affected by drug use disorders (continued)

Israel. Swedish colleague led informals on Friday afternoon.  Was going to be here.  Not here yet. Title accepted.  First two PPs.  No comment.  Next three PPs.  None.  Next three.  None.  Next two.  None.  Recognizing  —none.  Emphasizing, Acknowledging and Stressing — None.  Russia.  Has doubts about stigmatising.  Nothing in their legislation.  Wants to remove.   Delete stigmatising …

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