Chair: We now move to L9. I give the floor to Brazil who has led on the resolution and informal consultations. Brazil: We had 4 informals on this resolution. This has been quite constructive, we have agreed on a good number of paragraphs, and on many paragraphs we have opened language that was similar to …
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Committee of the Whole, Wednesday morning / Thursday afternoon (L7. Advancing effective and innovative approaches, through national, regional, and international action, to address the multifaceted challenges posed by synthetic drugs, particularly synthetic opioids
USA: Thank you chair, we have had three sessions of informals and believe we have completed a review of the preamble so should be able to get through that but may need time or the operative paragraphs. Chair: We will now move through L7, is there any comments? Title approved. PP1 Australia: originally this pp …
Committee of the Whole – Tuesday afternoon(L5 – Enhancing forensic detection capability for synthetic drugs through increasing international collaboration)
Chair: I propose we moved to PP3. Can we agree on the deletion of this paragraph? Paragraph deleted. Iran: We propose to put a full stop after financial flows, in sub paragraph b. Colombia: Given that this is language from UNGASS why has the language been removed when already agreed upon? I was referring to sub …
Drug scheduling: Forensic challenges in implementing a generic classification system.
Organized by the Governments of Brazil, Singapore and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Laboratory and Scientific Section. Luiz Beggiora – SENAD (Brazil): There has been high production of synthetic drugs at a global level and it very difficult to keep track of …
Side event: The death penalty for drug-related offences: The impact on women and vulnerable groups
Organized by the Governments of Austria, Canada, France, Mexico, New Zealand and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the European Union, Amnesty International and Harm Reduction International. Naomi Burke-Shyne, Executive Director, Harm Reduction International: Drug offences do not constitute the most serious crimes. Use of the death penalty for drug offences is …
Side Event: Police statement of support for drug policy reform
Organized by the Law Enforcement Action Partnership and the Centre for Law Enforcement and Public Health. Ron Hogg – Police, Crime and Victims Commissioner, Durham, England Prohibition simply does not work. Harm caused by illicit drugs has increased, violence associated with drugs market increased. UK government researched approach to drugs – found no correlation between …