Chair: Welcome back to the discussion of Item Number 6. I will begin by giving the floor to Uganda. Uganda: Chair, allow me to congratulate you as Chair and commend the member states to their important work. Uganda affirms that the fight against the World Drug Problem is the shared responsibility of all UN member states. …
Uzbekistan
Item 3. High-level segment (Friday morning)
Canada: Esteemed Chair, Ministers, Heads of Delegation, Distinguished Delegates, and Civil Society Representatives: Canada is experiencing one of the most serious public health crises in our country’s history: an unrelenting toxic drug and overdose crisis. The impact and scope of the toxic drug crisis is devastating and more complex than ever. Tragically, we have seen …
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 65th Reconvened Session – 8th December 2022
Reconvened Sixty-fifth session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, Vienna, Austria, 8-9 December 2022 CCPCJ Chair: Good Morning. (Opening Statement) >>> CND dates 2023 March 13 – 17 CND Chair: Opening Statement (Agenda adopted) Agenda Item 4. Strategic management, budgetary and administrative questions, including the following sub-items: (a) Work of the standing open-ended intergovernmental working …
Side event: SCO and UNODC in the Fight Against the Illicit Drug Threat: Countering Drug Trafficking via Darknet
Organized by the Governments of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the Russian Federation, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and the UNODC Regional Section for Europe, West and Central Asia. Ghada Waly, Executive Director of the UNODC: reports show half of dark net activities are associated with drugs. International operations have had some high profile successes in closing dark …
General Assembly: Thirtieth special session of the General Assembly on the world drug problem (Opening segment)
The full statements delivered by member states during the UNGASS general debate are available here. Mogens Lykketoft: Ladies and gentlemen, I think for the election as President of this special session. Let me express my condolences to the delegations of Ecuador and Japan whose countries have been hit by deadly earthquakes. It is an honour …