PM Session Secretariat: (housekeeping announcements) Mexico: Had successful informal. Advanced great deal. My suggestion to continue the text in the CoW. Move to paras which have been agreed then go back to other issues. P1 Chair: Agreed in CoW. OP3 Chair: Agreed in CoW. OP4bis Iran: Thank Mexico for their efforts. We are not happy …
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Committee of the Whole L.4. Strengthening international cooperation to comprehensively address the links between illicit drug trafficking and illicit firearms trafficking
Mexico: Last Monday, I mentioned we had advanced a lot in the understandings. Thanks to the contributions and engagement of delegations, we made good substantive progress over the last two days. There are a number of paragraphs which have already been agreed in informals. Should proceed with those paragraphs then will have time to move …
Committee of the Whole. L.5. Promoting comprehensive and scientific evidence-based early prevention
Venezuela: Question about the schedule for today’s CoW. Are we going to work two hours still? When do we come back? Are we running beyond schedule? Chair: I intend to go from 3-5PM, then 6-8PM. We have an hour for this resolution, L5. Then L6. But I received requests not to have that resolution in …
Committee of the Whole. L.7. Intensifying efforts to address the proliferation of uncontrolled and designer precursors used in the illicit manufacture of drugs
OP8 Alt & bis United States: We started from the title in informals. We haven’t discussed certain OPs. I don’t believe OP8 Alt & Bis are in a position to be finalised. OP8 is dealing with legislative measures to address the problem of designer precursor chemicals. So it’s a sensitive issue because it’s domestic legislation. …
Plenary Item 3. General debate (continued) – Morning session
Germany: For a few months now, Germany has had a new government. I am the new Drugs Commissioner. Germany stands for a multilateral rules-based approach to foreign policy. Reciprocal constructive exchanges will continue to shape our role in this space. Not violence and despotism. We condemn Russia’s aggression in the highest possible terms, it undermines …
Plenary Item 3. General debate (continued) – Afternoon sessions
Chair: Welcome back to our session. Namibia: Congratulate chair and elected members of the Bureau. Commend the UNODC secretariat. Namibia aligns herslef with Africa group and G77 statements. Many countries were impacted by the third wave of the COVID. It’s a relief that the omicron wave hasn’t been that deletarious. However, we were impacted by travel …