Chair: Welcome. I would immediately like to resume our consideration of Agenda Item 5: implementation of the international drug control treaties. We will now consider 5a: changes in the scope of control of substances. Under this item, the Commission is called upon to carry out its treaty functions under the respective provisions of the drug …
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Plenary: Item 4. Strategic management, budgetary and administrative questions
Chair: I’d like to start by recalling that in the reconvened session in December 2019 the commission adopted resolution 62/9 budget 2020/2021 for the UN Drug Control Programme. Considering commitment to gender balance and geographic representation in the office. For consideration is the note of the standing open-ended intergovernmental working group on improving work of …
Committee of the Whole (Tuesday afternoon ) L4. Promoting awareness-raising, education and training as part of a comprehensive approach to ensuring access to and the availability of controlled substances for medical and scientific purposes and improving their rational use
Chair: During this session we will proceed with L4, and L5 – I heard this is ready to be taken by the COW. We proceed with the draft resolution L4, tabled by Croatia and Australia – ‘promoting awareness-raising, education and training as part of a comprehensive approach to ensure access to the availability of internationally [US] …
Committee of the Whole – Monday afternoon
-L2- Chair: Checking the substantive issues with the resolutions. Tabled by the USA. Any problems with title? Russia: The title- would request should put in brackets, look at whole resolution then come back to ensure it responds to main body of the resolution. Chair: Thank you. Argentina: Change the word ‘Combat’ with ‘counter’. The Netherlands: Title …
Opening of the 63rd Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs
*** MORNING SESSION *** Chair: Welcome to CND63. I welcome Chief of UNODC Medical Service to talk about coronavirus. Dr: WHO has introduced guidelines on COVID19 outbreak. Measures to make and keep up safe. Latest numbers: quite a big number of people affected – mainly in China. Now more in other countries than China alone. Main …
CND 62nd Session Reconvened – Thursday, 12 December 2019
Joint meetings of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs and the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. CND chair: Welcome. Today we will consider, together with the CCPJ, agenda items regarding administrative questions and inter-governmental working groups and staff composition of UNODC. CND will have a separate meeting tomorrow, with a statement by Yuri Fedotov (UNODC …