The United Nations (UN) member states are currently working on a ‘Joint Ministerial Statement’ to review progress and challenges in international drug control since the agreement of a Political Declaration on drugs in 2009. The Statement will be released in March. This intersessional meeting was another opportunity for member state delegations to discuss and recommend …
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CND Intersessional Meeting – Wednesday 25th September 2013
This intersessional meeting was intended as the first day of formal negotiations on the draft of the Joint Ministerial Statement (JMS) for the 2014 High Level Segment. However, the Peruvian Chair stated at the opening that the original plan – to produce a collation of member state comments/proposals, then work through them systematically in three …
Resolution L8 (continued)
Two items outstanding in OP3. Venezuela: A new part was agreed for the paragraph. Norway prefers to stick to the wording of the Political Declaration and makes some amendments on the text. OP 3a: Thailand, for a better understanding, wants to propose an addition focusing on “policies and programmes, with a focus on education, prevention, …
Committee of the Whole – Resolution L14: Raising awareness on the diversion of non-scheduled substances as substitutes for scheduled substances in international trade for the illicit manufacture of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances
Op4: China – Still has problems with paragraph 4, wants to remove the term “diversion” and included a reference to the “Illicit manufacture of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances”. This was contested by Venezuela to be in line with the title of the convention. This resolution only covers one of two scenarios – 1 being …
Committee of the Whole – Resolution L13: Preparation for the high-level review of the implementation by member states of the Political declaration and Plan of Action on International Cooperation towards
Draft resolution submitted by the chair: The original text can be downloaded here Ukraine: propose another additional preamble and paragraph as follows : ‘ recalling General Assembly resolution 67/193 which decided that these activities be funded from existing resources. Egypt: St Lucia: Proposal to include a new paragraph in the pre-ample section the language from CND resolution 54/11 that encourages member …
Committee of the Whole – Resolution L12
Resolution L12: Follow-up on measures to support African States in their efforts to combat the world drug problem Sponsors: Peru on behalf group of G77 and china and South Africa on the behalf of African states No additional appropriation of the budget needed. The Venezuelan delegation gives an explanation of its position on this resolution …