Minister Bent Høie, Norway: Our attitudes and understandings of drugs have changed over the last years. The policy area has evolved but within the same framework: prohibition and sanctions are effective and reasonable. I have to admit, I have been in favour of this paradigm. Gradually, this approach has been questioned and criticised by more …
Vienna NGO Committee on Drugs (VNGOC)
Side Event: A framework for multilateralism – the pathways to and from the international drug control regime
Chair, Singapore: We’ve seen that unilateralism didn’t work and there was a turn to multilateralism. The Commission was then pushed by various activists that led to the signing of the Opium Convention, the first internationally binding agreement that was the basis for the current drug control conventions. Tomorrow is the 55th anniversary of our first …
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 …
CND Intersessional Meeting, 23 September 2019
Supporting documents: WHO responses by 24 June 2019 WHO Q&A – By 27 June 2019 WHO Q&A – By 9 September 2019 MORNING SESSION Chair: On the request of the extended bureau all submitted questions are published on the website of the commission and a live webcast is also accessible here. Agenda item 1. We will not spend much time …
Launch of the 2019 World Drug Report, Vienna
CND Chair: Welcome. The World Drug Report is our most comprehensive dataset that is key to combat the world drug problem and contribute to the 2020 agenda and whose importance is recorded in the conventions as MS are required to submit data. In the Ministerial Declaration of 2019, we committed to increase our efforts to strengthen …
CND Intersessional Meeting, 24 June 2019
To access WHO’s responses to the questions posed below by Member States, please click here. Agenda item 2: Proposed scheduling recommendations by WHO Chair: Good morning, we have a slight change in the agenda. We are starting with agenda item 2 which is regarding the proposed scheduling recommendations by WHO – no objections. Assistant Secretary General …