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High Level Segment – Philippines Statement

The Philippines welcomes progress made since 2009. There are still gaps. The Philippines dangerous drugs board continues to monitor the drug problem. In 2013 over 800 kg of amphetamines were destroyed. Many cannabis plantations were destroyed. The Philippines were recognised for a education programme by the Colombo Plan. Looking to increase data. A 2012 household …

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Supply Reduction Roundtable Part 2

Algeria.  Cannabis tons seized.  Crime is becoming more transnational in nature.  Measures taken by Algeria.  Awareness building and legislation.  Capacity building needed for developing countries. Indonesia. Sea, air and land protection needed from drug trafficking syndicates.  Dismantling and detecting clandestine laboratories.  Consistent drug law enforcement exercise in order to??? (Very hard to understand this, sorry) …

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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 …

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Committee of the Whole – Resolution L9

Developing an international electronic import and export authorisation system for licit trade of controlled substances. Sponsors: Croatia, Denmark on behalf of the EU, Albania, United States. Amendment to operative paragraph 2, the rest of text is deleted as the same text is contained in operative paragraph 6. Budgetary Implications 506,000 dollars to develop deploy and …

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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” …

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Committee of the Whole – Resolution L4

100th anniversary of the opium convention Co-sponsors Thailand, United States, Albania, Croatia Peru and the Russian Federation There has been an amendment to the second preamble paragraph No financial consequences Additional cosponsors Canada, Colombia, Denmark on behalf of the EU, Turkey, Ukraine, Philippines, India, Mexico, Australia, Costa Rica.

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