Peru: A very good afternoon. It is an honour for me to speak to this plenary hall. In Peru we are fighting against drug trafficking with a balanced and comprehensive approach and with full respect for human rights. Peru would like to reiterate its firm commitment to tackling the fight against drugs from a comprehensive, …
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Special commemorative event at the occasion of the United Nations International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking and Launch of the 2022 World Drug Report
Chair: Welcome. Today, to promote participation, we are conducting this meeting in a hybrid format. I welcome all our panelists, youth ambassadors, and the 26 registered speakers. WDR is historically launched on World Drug Day which is a very important day for us all to advance SDGs and build back better. The theme this year …
Plenary Item 12. Adoption of the report of the Commission on its sixty-fifth session.
Chair: We are having technical difficulties with printing the resolutions, we will therefore change the order of our proceedings, but we will turn to Nigeria who has kindly agreed to act as rapporteur so that we can adopt various parts of the report. We will then move to the resolutions. We only have a few …
Plenary Item 8. Recommendations of the subsidiary bodies of the Commission
Secretariat of the Governing Bodies: During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Commission decided to organize an extraordinary session 20-24 September 2022 with. In total, 660 participants from 99 countries and 40 observers from 11 organizations participated in the extra ordinary online sessions. The UNODC executive director made an opening statement at those sessions. Each of the …
Plenary Item 6. Follow-up to the implementation at the national, regional and international levels (afternoon session)
Chair: This morning, we have had the introductions. By the various offices of the UNODC Secretariat, but we have not yet had the occasion to give the floor to delegates and I will therefore now open the floor to delegates starting with China online. China: Undoubtedly strict control of these substances will contribute to preserving life and …
Side event: Driving change from a shrinking space: Challenges to effective civil society participation in drug policy making
Organised by the Brussels Federation of Institutions for Drug Addicts with the support of the Czech Republic, Spain, and the Civil Society Forum on Drugs in the EU, the Council of Europe – Pompidou Group, the European Union, and the French NGO Platform on Drug Policy Laurène Collard, Civil Society Forum on Drugs in the …