Thailand: Thailand, Peru and Germany have the honour of presenting this resolution. We have gone through all the paragraphs in informals, there are some amendments and hopefully we can get through this today. Chair: The title? Pakistan: At an early stage we suggested the title is complicated, so we should use …
United States
Side event: World Drug Report: Latest trends and addressing users’ needs
Organized by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Research and Trend Analysis Branch. Pakistan Office. The event will review the current issues on drug demand and drug supply that characterize the world drug problem and the way in which they are currently addressed in the World Drug Report. It will provide an opportunity …
Committee of the Whole (Tuesday morning): L5. Laboratory support for the implementation of the scheduling decisions of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs
Chair: I propose we move to L5. Finland to take the floor. Let us start on the title. Any comments? Can we move to the preambular paragraphs? Finland: I would like to point out we held informal meetings on this resolution with 15 countries. There are only a few amendments within the text and they …
Committee of the Whole (Tuesday Morning) – Resolution L.4 Strengthening efforts to prevent drug use in educational settings
Pakistan: Informals are from 11:30 to 1:30. We were told that Belarus has co-signed the list of co-sponsors. We will start from OP3. we can clean this paragraph while keeping “drug user/ abuser”. US: Just a question about regarding national stakeholders, I would think we’d want international stakeholder to be available if they needed …
Plenary: Item 3 General Debate (Tuesday 13th – Morning Session)
Mexico: We meet because of our interest to tackle the World Drug Problem. Aware of the progress made so far, Mexico would like to strengthen the work of the CND in ordinary meetings, subsidiaries and intersessional. For Mexico it is important to replicate the good practice of this process. The implementation of the UNGASS document is …
CND 60th Session Reconvened – Friday, 8 December 2017
Note: As the reconvened meeting is mainly concerned with administrative issues, this blog entry summarises the discussions rather than providing the usual detailed account of every intervention and statement. Following the informal discussions on Thursday 7th, the resolution approving the UNODC budget for 2018-2019 was approved. The USA highlighted the decision that UNODC must reconsider …