UN TV: Commission on Narcotic Drugs Reconvened sixty-eighth session in Vienna – Joint CND & CCPCJ meeting Annotated provisional agenda [ENG] Chair (CND): We have a full afternoon and will start with agenda item five on implementation of the international drug control treaties. UNODC will report on its evidence-based work, including activities under resolution 66/3 …
UNODC
48th meeting of the WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence (ECDD) – Public information session – 20 October 2025
While the CND Blog usually covers meetings of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, we are exceptionally reporting on this public session of the WHO Expert Committee on Drug Dependence due to its direct relevance to the forthcoming CND vote on the scheduling of the coca leaf, expected in March 2026. The forty-eighth Expert Committee on Drug Dependence …
CND Thematic Discussions on the Implementation of All International Drug Policy Commitments, following-up to the 2019 Ministerial Declaration – 30 September 2025 – Afternoon Session
CND Thematic Discussions on Strengthening Public Health Responses to Drug Use Session 2: Drug Treatment and Health Services Falling Short of Meeting Needs; Increase in Deaths Related to Drug Use Chair: We begin the afternoon session with a discussion on the topic of Treatment and health services – falling short of meeting needs, increase in deaths …
Plenary – Thursday morning session
Item 6. Follow-up to the implementation at the national, regional and international levels of all commitments, as reflected in the Ministerial Declaration of 2019, to address and counter the world drug problem (continued) United States: The US takes the floor to address statements made yesterday regarding the mandate of the INCB which we do not …
Plenary — Wednesday morning session
Item 5. Implementation of the international drug control treaties (continued) (a) Changes in the scope of control of substances Chair: First, Commission will consider recommendations of WHO on 4 substances, namely: (a) Whether or not it wishes to include N-pyrrolidino protonitazene in Schedule I of the 1961 Convention as amended; (b) Whether or not it …
Item 4. Strategic management, budgetary and administrative questions
Chair: Item 4 has various sub items closely linked – as with established practice they are opened together and interventions should state which sub item they are referring to. We must address the nominations of two FINGOV vice chairs from the Group of African States and the Group of Asia Pacific States, nominated during extended …