Chair of CND, Ambassador Srisamoot, opens the discussion. Amb. Srisamoot: Welcomes everyone back to the 5th meeting of the year. Proposes that Agenda item 2 is discussed – preparations for The United Nations General Assembly Special Session on Drugs (UNGASS) 2016, before dealing with other considerations. Hands over to Chair of the CND UNGASS Board (Amb. …
CND Intersessionals
CND Side event hosted by Norway and Australia Missions: The Global Crisis of Untreated Pain
Opened by Chair of CND, Amb. Srisamoot. Amb. Srisamoot. Thanked Amb. Hansen (Norway) and Amb. Stewart (Australia) for convening the panel. Other specialized agencies from UNODC, WHO and civil society. CND has had numerous sessions where we have talked about availability of controlled medicines and this event serves to reinforce and highlight the importance of …
CND Intersessional – 12th June 2015
Agenda Item 1 Vladimir Galuska of the Czech Republic was elected First Vice Minister of the Commission of Narcotic Drugs (CND) Endorsement of nominations for Vice-chairs FINGOV. Announcements were made about FINGOV and ECOSOC. CND 52/13 nominations of co-chairs (Joint meeting) Mr Belina Ruiz (Spain) put forward Nicaragua (Other co-chair) 3rd ECOSOC Management and co-ordination …
CND Intersessional – Friday 6th March 2015
Chair – Thailand: Today we hope to discuss draft resolutions and in the afternoon, scheduling. Also on the agenda are preparations for CND and the UNGASS segment next week. On the UNGASS segment, the schedule has been revised so that on Tuesday 10 March, segment B will be in the morning and segment A in …
CND Intersessional – 23 February 2015 (Afternoon session)
Afternoon Session: WHO Brussels: (Video link presentation) The 36th Expert Committee took place in June. At the moment 36 substances are to be reviewed, 23 psychotropic substances and 3 therapeutic. UK asks mephredone to be scheduled 2 under the 1971 convention. China critical review of ketamine although WHO didn’t recommend any scheduling for ketamine. Director …
CND Intersessional – 23 February 2015 (Morning session)
The main discussions this morning were held around the scheduling of ketamine proposed by China. The Chair opens the session. 1 – Agenda for the special segment of CND focused on the UNGASS In the last CND interssesional of 29th January, member-states discussed the agenda for the Special Session on the UNGASS at this year …