Chair: we will now reopen item number 9. Subitems B – E. commission invited WHO with support of UNODC to conduct regular reviews of scheduling. Item 9B – Laboratory and Scientific Section (UNODC): New psychoactive substances have been associated with harms to man, in particular to vulnerable populations. In 2008-19, 119 countries and territories reported …
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Plenary: Item 8. Strategic management, budgetary and administrative questions
Chair: Before we start, I would like to give the opportunity to the Conference Management Service to play a short video. Conference Management Service: Our interpreters are key to facilitate this multicultural space. They’re your voice in the other languages. The visualised messages are a reminder of the need to slow down your delivery, increase …
Side event: Taking action to increase access to controlled drugs for medical purposes while preventing diversion and misuse
Organized by the Governments of Australia, Ecuador and Belgium, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Drugs and Health Branch, the International Narcotics Control Board and the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care. Permanent representative, Australia: People are at the centre of our efforts. The Conventions were established to uphold the welfare and …
Roundtable discussion: Item 5b. ‘Safeguarding the future…’
Interactive, multi-stakeholder round table of the ministerial segment: Safeguarding the future: enhancing our efforts to respond to the world drug problem through strengthening international cooperation, including means of implementation, capacity-building and technical assistance, on the basis of common and shared responsibility Chair: Welcome. Today I have a double function, in addition to chair I am …
Roundtable discussion: Item 5a. ‘Taking stock…’
Interactive, multi-stakeholder round table of the ministerial segment: Taking stock of the implementation of all commitments made to jointly address and counter the world drug problem, in particular in the light of the 2019 target date for the goals set in paragraph 36 of the Political Declaration; analysing existing and emerging trends, gaps and challenges …
Plenary: Item 4. General debate of the ministerial segment (cont…)
Malaysia: This week, we charge direction of our way forward and building on the last decade. We strongly believe that existing conventions and other relevant international instrument are the basis for world drug policy in term of challenges in the years to come. It is a sovereign right of every MS to take into account …