Bente Angell-Hansen (Norway), CND Chair: This is the day I’ve been looking the most forward to. The question is how do we carry what we have done forward. It’s also a specially good day because the Mexican Ambassador is in the room. On behalf of all of us, we congratulate you on the nomination by GRULAC …
Draft resolution as submitted before the session. USA: I believe we’re ready to consider this in the CoW apart from just one suggestion. We had successful informals. We’d like to get agreement on all the other paragraphs before we decide whether the top will say CND or ECOSOC. Chair: All PPs approved by COW. Comments on OP.3quat …
Text of resolution as it was written before CND commenced. Noway: Still working on the paragraph. lets move forward and come back to it. OP5 Russia: We discussed with Portugal and we would like a few more words added: after demand reduction initiatives’ add ‘in accordance with national legislation and the three international drug conventions’. …
Chair: Egypt has asked to speak before Agenda Item 8b. Egypt: We are committed to the 3 conventions – they constitute the cornerstone for national policies that combat drugs. The 3 documents are the roadmap to addressing the world drug problem. We fully believe in the balance of efforts to reduce the supply and demand of …
OP3bis Norway: Overlap with PP which risks weakening it’s effect and doesn’t use OP language. so it reads ‘encourages UNODC and encourages together with INCB to continue supporting and implementing’ US: Happy to go along with more operative language S.Africa: Add ‘in accordance with their mandates’ OP3bis approved OP3ter Norway: Similar proposal as the last. …
CND Chair. Tomorrow morning we will move to agenda item 8 on the change in the scope of the international drug control conventions. Please all be here for this as it is a very important issue. We now move to agenda item 6. In the outcome document, member states stated it was necessary to implement the …