Organized by Czechia with the support of Canada, Colombia, Mexico, Switzerland, the United States, the International Drug Policy Consortium and the Transnational Institute Jindrich Voboril – Czech Republic: Why is Czechia organising this event? The Czech Republic is a country with only 10,000,000 people in Central Europe, in the centre of the European Union. We …
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Round Table – Taking Stock: Work Undertaken Since 2019
UN Web TV recording ;Bangladesh/Chair: Discuss the work done around the globe to implement drug control commitments – identify progress, identify challenges. This will consist of a panel of interventions followed by interactive discussions. Mexico/Co-Chair: Delegations wishing to take the floor can raise their panels to nominate themselves. Please bear with me if I call …
CND Thematic Discussions // Session 6 – Non-compliance of responses with international drug control conventions & human rights obligations
Chair: Welcome back. The challenge that we will be focusing on this afternoon responses not in conformity with the three international drug conventions, and not in conformity with applicable international human rights obligations pose a challenge to the implementation of joint commitment based on the principle of responsibility. UNODC Scientific Services Branch: I have a brief moment …
CND Thematic Discussion // Session 5 – Criminal misuse of information & communications technologies for drug trafficking
Chair: Good Morning. [organizational matters] UNODC, Chief of the Drugs Research Section: Thank you, Mr. Chair, and good morning, everyone. Today, I stand before you to delve deeper into the intricate web of online drug transactions. As we navigate the vast expanse of the internet, we encounter the visible web, the deep web, and the …
CND Thematic Discussions // Session 3 – Increasing links between drug trafficking, corruption & other forms of organized crime
Chair: Excellencies, distinguished experts, esteemed colleagues, and delegates, Welcome to the third thematic meeting of the CND. Today, we will be addressing all 11 challenges identified in the 2019 ministerial declaration. Yesterday, we heard from our UNODC colleagues and had many interventions from the floor on the expanding and diversifying range of drug use and …
CND Thematic Discussions // Session 2 – Record levels of drug abuse & illicit cultivation, production & trafficking
Chair: Welcome back to the CND thematic discussions. What we will be focusing on this afternoon is the abuse, illicit cultivation and production and manufacture of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, as well as the illicit trafficking in those substances and the courses have reached record levels and the illicit demand for the domestic diversion …