L.4. Improving access to and availability of controlled substances for medical purposes, including for the treatment of children in pain, through the promotion of awareness-raising, training and data collection (Belgium on behalf of the States Members of the United Nations that are members of the European Union, and Côte d’Ivoire)

Belgium: I suggest we start from PP9. Chair: Thank you, let’s turn to PP9. Do I have any comments on PP9?  Chile: Thank you for the floor. For Chile, a suggestion, instead of ‘hindering’ we suggest the language of ‘limiting’ as hindering has negative context. Russian Federation: We could agree on the language from Chile. …

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L.2. Commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Alternative Development: effective implementation and future perspectives (Germany, Peru and Thailand)

Chair: Welcome back.  Thailand: Thank you Madam Chair. Unfortunately we did not manage to agree on any further PPs although we made some progress but it seems some of the delegation were holding onto some of the paragraphs to see the outcomes of the others. For now this morning we had PP11 written as agreed …

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Side event: Drugs and the environment: Towards more environmentally sustainable drug policies

Organised by Germany with the support of Australia, Brazil, France, Peru, Thailand and the UNODC Research and Trend Analysis Branch Daniel Brombacher, GIZ, Germany. We are happy to see the issue of the environment having gained growing support. Our AD resolution in 2022 was the first that had the environment in the title. This year’s …

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Item 5. Implementation of the international drug control treaties (Monday afternoon)

(c) International Narcotics Control Board Colombia: (TBA) Pakistan:  Pakistan acknowledges and appreciates the effective role and efforts of the INCB in the collection of data, in-depth analysis, and compilation of the comprehensive report. We believe that the INCB report for 2023 will provide assistance to member states in aligning their national priorities and responses to …

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