Post-UNGASS Facilitator. Before we start, I want to give word to the Secretariat to deal with the issues of yesterday’s afternoon session. CND Secretary. Thank you, let me give you an opportunity to make an appendix to yesterday’s session. You will recall that there is a specific reference in Chapter 6 to the work of …
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CND Intersessional Meeting – 11 October: Operational recommendations on Supply reduction and related measures; effective law enforcement; responses to drug-related crime; and countering money laundering and promoting judicial cooperation
Chair: I need to leave at 1pm, so please stick to the advised time limits for interventions. Today we continue our thematic discussions, and the Chapter we are discussing is the third one: Supply reduction and related measures… I will call on speakers according to the flow of the discussion. UNODC: We will cover many …
UNGASS roundtable 5: Alternative development
Alternative development; regional, interregional and international cooperation on development-oriented balanced drug control policy; addressing socioeconomic issues (i) Drugs, addressing socioeconomic issues and fostering alternative development, including preventive alternative development; (ii) Enhancing regional, interregional and international cooperation on development-oriented, balanced drug control policy; Co-Chair President Ollanta Humala of Peru: Good afternoon, it is an …
Side event: Alternative Development. New approaches and key elements for the post-UNGASS framework
Organized by the Governments of Germany, Colombia and Thailand and the UNODC. Aldo Lale-Demoz, deputy Executive Director, UNODC (moderator) Yury Fedotov, Executive Director, UNODC| Opening remarks. We congratulate that the outcome document respects the Treaties. This subject of alternative development (AD) is very important, there is even one round table here at UNGASS, and …
Side event: Contribution of alternative development to implementing the sustainable development goals
HE General Paiboon Koomchaya, Minister of Justice of Thailand. I welcome all our high level participants. We place high priority to push forward alternative development in addressing the world drug problem to address the root causes such as poverty via public health, education and social security. AD was recognised as a cash crop substitution programme. Now …
UNGASS roundtable 3: Cross-cutting issues: Drugs and human rights, youth, women, children and communities
GRULAC – H.E. Ana H. Chacon, Vice President, Costa Rica – Costa Rica never saw drug use as a crime, but as a problem to be dealt with from a health perspective. We didn’t put people in prison for using drugs. In 2002, passed a law to use 60% of resources from seized drugs to …