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 …
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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 …
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” …
Demand Reduction Round Table
The Demand Reduction Round Table at the High Level Meeting was chaired by New Zealand this morning and attended by delegates of many states. Of the 41 Speeches made, including speeches by 2 NGOs, the chairman identified the following 8 broad themes of the discussion. 1) A strong recognition of the value of collaboration and …