This is my 5th visit to participate at CND, highlighting New Zealand’s interest. Innovation is of particular relevance for the 2016 UNGASS. Next year’s session comes at an important time, with an increasing level of NPS. New Zealand has not been immune to this trend. Dedicated legislation in New Zealand has been adopted – the …
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Committee of the Whole – E/CN.7/2014/L.9
Supporting recovery from substance use disorders Presented by the USA to promote recovery from drug dependence. PP1: Debates on the use of “disease of the brain” to define “substance use disorders” Ecuador – We ask the USA to elaborate more on the first paragraph, which seems to imply that substance abuse is a disease of …
High Level Segment – Statement by New Zealand
New Zealand Minister of Internal Affairs NZ supports theme of HL segment of challenges achieved etc. towards an integrated and balanced strategy. I attended CND 52 in 2009 when PD was adopted and regard this as an excellent opportunity to review progress. Key words are cooperated, integrated and balanced. Reflect at a political level important …
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 L2: Enhancing international cooperation in the identification and reporting of new psychoactive substances
Sponsored by: Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Peru and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Mexico Turkey Finland Thailand USA The original text can be accessed here. Venezuela: Asks to include “use of poppers” to the preamble text. A number of small grammatical changes made by the UK in the pre-ample paragraphs Canada gets …
Opening Plenary: Representative of New Zealand Government
He stated that New Zealand is a strong supporter of the drug conventions. New Zealand will be glad to join Australia, Japan, United Kingdom and Northern Ireland to co-sponsor the draft resolution on Enhancing International Cooperation in the identification and reporting of new psychoactive substances (CND/56/RES/2. http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/commissions/CND/session/56-draft-res.presession.html..) When thousands of people are using unknown substances …