Youth Forum: Your excellencies, distinguished delegates, ladies and gentleman. From 25 countries we gather as a unified voice to address the issue of substance use in our communities. This is not a new challenge and has been tackled over the past decades. Everyday there are new substances threatening individuals and society as a whole. It …
Philippines
Opening of the 68th Session of the CND
Item 1. Election of officers CND Chair. It’s an honour to welcome you to the 68th session of the CND. I thank all my colleagues at the extended bureau and secretariat. With over 2,000 participants, this is one of the largest CNDs. The CND can be followed in Boardroom A and UN Web TV. The …
CND Reconvened 67th Session – CND & CCPCJ joint meeting

MORNING SESSSION CCPCJ 1st VICE-Chair: Annotated Agenda. As you can see, it is proposed that the session today will address Item 4 on strategic management, budgetary, and administrative questions. As a joint meeting we are CND. Any outstanding elections for the FINGOV Bureau for 2024 will happen under that item as agreed upon by the …
Committee of the Whole (Friday morning)
L2 – Celebrating the tenth anniversary of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Alternative Development: effective implementation and the way forward (Dominican Republic, Germany, Peru, Philippines and Thailand) Chair: Good Morning! Chair: We have two resolutions still to be agreed this morning. I hope we can see good flexibility this morning as in the last …
Committee of the Whole (Thursday morning session)
L.2. Commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Alternative Development: effective implementation and future perspectives (Germany, Peru and Thailand) PP2 (…) Colombia: We’d like to support Brazil’s proposal. The language is sufficiently broad. It reflects experience gathered to date. We urge delegations to show flexibility. The text is broad. Chair: …
Committee of the Whole (Wednesday afternoon)
Chair: Good afternoon. We made some good progress in the morning, and managed to agree on some paragraphs so I hope we can continue with this in the afternoon. We will start with L3 from Chile. Chile: Can we start with the paragraphs that have been agreed in informals, before returning to the others. Chair: …