Chair: I’d like to start by recalling that in the reconvened session in December 2019 the commission adopted resolution 62/9 budget 2020/2021 for the UN Drug Control Programme. Considering commitment to gender balance and geographic representation in the office. For consideration is the note of the standing open-ended intergovernmental working group on improving work of …
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Committee of the Whole – Tuesday Morning
L3: Chair: Adjourned yesterday stating we’d talk about L2 – but in meantime they’ve gone to informals. So we’ll start with L3, then L6, then we’ll see how we go. L5 informals in M5 now, L4 informals M4 now, L2 this afternoon at 2pm in M4. USA: We’re actually doing informals at 1pm. Rm reserved …
Committee of the Whole – Monday afternoon
-L2- Chair: Checking the substantive issues with the resolutions. Tabled by the USA. Any problems with title? Russia: The title- would request should put in brackets, look at whole resolution then come back to ensure it responds to main body of the resolution. Chair: Thank you. Argentina: Change the word ‘Combat’ with ‘counter’. The Netherlands: Title …
Thematic sessions – Follow up to the 2019 Ministerial Declaration, 18 October
Third round of thematic sessions on the implementation of all international drug policy commitments following up to the 2019 Ministerial Declaration Theme addressed: ‘… synthetic opioids and the non-medical use of prescription drugs pose increasing risks to public health and safety, as well as scientific, legal and regulatory challenges, including with regard to the scheduling of substances’ Background …
Thematic sessions – Follow up to the 2019 Ministerial Declaration, 17 October
Second round of thematic sessions on the implementation of all international drug policy commitments following up to the 2019 Ministerial Declaration Theme addressed: ‘… illicit cultivation and production and manufacture of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, as well as the illicit trafficking in those substances and in precursors, have reached record levels, and that the illicit demand for …
Thematic sessions – Follow up to the 2019 Ministerial Declaration, 16 October
First round of thematic sessions on the implementation of all international drug policy commitments following up to the 2019 Ministerial Declaration Theme addressed: ‘…that both the range of drugs and drugs markets are expanding and diversifying…’. Background Note by the Secretariat Morning Session Chair: Welcome INCB [Introduction of the work of INCB] … no crimes should …