Chair Welcome to the 61st CND! All debates will be on the CND website. Thank you to all delegates who have contributed to past sessions. 1st Item – election of officers: The commission elected Kenya as the 1st Vice Chair. 2nd Vice Chair is Pakistan. The Rapporteur is the Netherlands. Mexico serves as Chair. Can we …
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CND Intersessional, 21 February 2018
In preparing for the 61st session of the CND, the first intersessional meeting in 2018 was held on February 21st. The new Chair of CND, Alicia Buenrostro Massieu of Mexico, opened the meeting with a quick recap of the last meetings and confirmed the dates for CND (12-16 March), informal consultations (9 March), and for …
CND 60th Session Reconvened – Thursday, 7 December 2017
Note: As the reconvened meeting is mainly concerned with administrative issues, this blog entry summarises the discussions rather than providing the usual detailed account of every intervention and statement. On Thursday 7th December, the meeting opened with a joint session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) and the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal …
CND Intersessional, 27 September 2017: Chapter 2 on access to controlled substances for medical and scientific purposes
Gilberto Gerra, UNODC. Only a few words from me to introduce my colleague. The rooms in the UN can be impermeable to sound, including the screaming of millions of people in unnecessary pain – people undergoing surgery, people suffering from pain. Thanks to cooperation with Belgium and others, we are working to overcome this – this …
CND Intersessional, 26 September 2017: Chapter 1 on demand reduction
CND Chair Ambassador Bente Angell-Hansen. I welcome participants to the CND intersessional. She reconfirmed that the extended bureau have confirmed the dates for the reconvened session of the 61st Session of the CND as the 6th – 7th December. Ahead of the reconvened there will be a report from UNODC Executive Director on gender balance & geographical …
CND Intersessional Meeting – 6 June 2017
CND Chair: Links to the presentations will be sent out to members. This is the first meeting after the productive sixtieth session. During that meeting, there were good resolutions and much scheduling, and the meeting ended on time. 1750 people were there and over one hundred side events occurred. The meeting functioned in an inclusive …