On the UN International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, UNODC and their UN partners coordinated simultaneous launches of their flagship World Drug Report 2015 – in Vienna, Geneva and New York. Member states had received a technical briefing about the report last week, so this event was billed as a CND Special Session …
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High-level Thematic Debate in support of the process towards the 2016 Special Session of the General Assembly on the World Drug Problem
All official statements are now available here. Opening session H.E. Mr. Sam Kutesa, President of the 69th Session of the United Nations General Assembly The world drug problem affects us all. Drug trafficking affects national institutions. Worldwide markets are worth 332 billion dollars. Men, women and children are trapped in poverty, languish in prison. We …
Identifying common ground on development for UNGASS 2016
Mr. Cockayne There are major obstacles for the implementation of our drug policy approach. For alternative development to be dealt with new directions in rural and urban areas, we need to discuss the issue at the 2016 UNGASS. 3 directions: need to use programming to tackle poverty, government presence and access to land need to …
CND Day 2 – Plenary Session Presentation of Items 7 & 10
Item 7. World situation with regard to drug trafficking and recommendations of the subsidiary bodies of the Commission Report of the UNODC on the world drug situation (E/CN.7/2015/4) and on action taken by subsidiary bodies (E/CN.7/2015/5). UNODC Opium poppy cultivation. Afghanistan and Myanmar account for majority of cultivation worldwide. Areas under cultivation increased 7% since …
CND Day 2 – Plenary Session Presentation of Item 3
Session on Item 3 Item 3: Policy directives to the drug programme of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and strengthening the drug programme and the role of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs as its governing body, including administrative, budgetary and strategic management questions (a) Work of the United Nations Office on Drugs …
CND Day 1 – Agenda item 6(b): Change in the scope of control of substances
Commission will identify the notifications in the order they were received. Begin with mephedrone recommended by the UK. Then will look at ketamine recommended by China. Then will look at reocmmendations from the WHO including (a) AH-7921 should be placed in Schedule I of the 1961 Convention; (b) gamma-Butyrolactone (GBL), 1,4-butanediol, 25B-NBOMe (2C-B-NBOMe), 25C-NBOMe (2C-C-NBOMe) …