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 …
President of the General Assembly (PGA)
Opening of the 67th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs & Item 3. High-level segment (Thursday morning)

UN Web TV recording Opening of the 67th session of the Commission on Narcotic DrugsOutcome Document: High-level Declaration by the Commission on Narcotic Drugs on the 2024 midterm review, following up to the 2019 Ministerial DeclarationChair: Welcome. Inform you that for the opening session of the HLS, there’ll be a video transmission of the …
Launch of the 2018 UNODC World Drug Report in New York

The 2018 Launch of the World Drug Report was held on June 26th in Geneva, Vienna, Nairobi and New York City. The report is presented in a five booklet format with two booklets focusing on the vulnerable populations of youth and women. The report derives its statistics from the content voluntarily provided from states who …
UNGASS special segment, first meeting
PGA – As you all know too well, April’s special segment is very timely. Drugs continue to pose a serious threat to sustainable development, endanger communities, undermine rule of law. Our responsibility to address this transnational problem and advance a global and effective response. Your work today has been instrumental for identifying the modalities for …
Informal Interactive Stakeholder Consultation
OPENING SEGMENT H.E. Mr. Mogens Lykketoft, President of the UN General Assembly Welcome to the IISC in support of the UNGASS meeting. UNGASS is a major event in the 2016 GA calendar. What we are facing in these discussions is a transnational threat represented by the world drug problem and representing the common challenge and …
2016 Annual Parliamentary Hearing: The World Drug Problem
Session I – The world drug problem in perspective: The evolution of drugs control IPU Permanent Observer – Welcome to the annual parliamentary hearing at the UN that the IPU and the office of the PGA have organised. We welcome you all to NY. We will now turn to the President of the GA, a …