High Level Segments

Roundtable discussion: Item 5b. ‘Safeguarding the future…’

Interactive, multi-stakeholder round table of the ministerial segment: Safeguarding the future: enhancing our efforts to respond to the world drug problem through strengthening international cooperation, including means of implementation, capacity-building and technical assistance, on the basis of common and shared responsibility Chair: Welcome. Today I have a double function, in addition to chair I am …

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The future of alternative development

Organized by the Governments of Austria, Colombia, Germany, Peru and Thailand, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Sustainable Livelihoods Unit, and Research and Trend Analysis Branch, the European Union, and the Mae Fah Luang Foundation under Royal Patronage. AUSTRIA: [opening remarks and gratitudes] The future of the international community lays within sustainable development. …

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High Level Segment – Adoption of the Joint Ministerial Statement

High level segment called to adopt the resolution E/CN.7/2014/L.15 and will then be submitted to ECOSOC meeting. The resolution was adopted without objection. Available here: http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/commissions/CND/session/57draft-resolutions.html Greek delegation. We command the chairman for his work. Take  the floor for EU, Turkey, Montenegro, Bosnia, Lies, Moldova, Switzerland, Chile, Monaco, Mexico, Uruguay, Panama, Argentina, Colombia, Namibia, etc.  Regret that …

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Roundtable on countering money laundering report

Thank all those who participated.  Speakers expressed concerns about scale of illicit financial flows from drug trafficking.  Proceeds to banking system and informal and formal transfer systems.  Highlighted disruption of financial flows is a major component in disrupting transnational organized crime.  FATF recommendations useful in combating illicit financial flows.  Anti-money laundering legal framework.  Financial intelligence …

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