Sponsored by: Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Peru and United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Mexico Turkey Finland Thailand USA The original text can be accessed here. Venezuela: Asks to include “use of poppers” to the preamble text. A number of small grammatical changes made by the UK in the pre-ample paragraphs Canada gets …
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Committee of the Whole – Resolution L9
Developing an international electronic import and export authorisation system for licit trade of controlled substances. Sponsors: Croatia, Denmark on behalf of the EU, Albania, United States. Amendment to operative paragraph 2, the rest of text is deleted as the same text is contained in operative paragraph 6. Budgetary Implications 506,000 dollars to develop deploy and …
Plenary Day 3: UK
Very concerned by HIV epidemics. Sertile injecting equipment a major issue we address. We need to reduce transmission among idu’s. UK wants evidence based treatment. Providing opiate treatment, needle syringe programs and A.R.T are key. Countries who have used these interventions have brought infections near to zero. We want much more of this. We also …
Plenary Day 2: Statement from the UK
The UK delegation states that it is currently refreshing its national drug policy, and one of the key achievements is to move to a recovery-based approach. In the last 2 years the delegation states that they have seen the threat of legal highs and that they pose a challenge to them. Since January 2011 the …
Committee of the Whole – Resolution L2: Promoting international cooperation in responding to new psychoactive substances
The Committee of the Whole (CoW) has just started working on the first resolution, Resolution L2 – Promoting international cooperation in responding to new psychoactive substances. This resolution was introduced by Australia, Japan and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. We will be providing updates on the ongoing negotiations on next blog …
CND Day 5 – Closing Plenary of the 54th Session the CND
In addition to formally adopting all the resolutions previously negotiated in the Committee of the Whole, the final task of the closing plenary session is to approve the draft report of the CND session. As had been announced, the draft report this year was short due to financial considerations. The report is the only official …