CND Intersessional, 26 September 2017: Chapter 1 on demand reduction
CND Chair Ambassador Bente Angell-Hansen. I welcome participants to the CND intersessional. She reconfirmed that the extended bureau have confirmed the dates for the reconvened session of the 61st...
View ArticleCND Intersessional, 27 September 2017: Chapter 2 on access to controlled...
Gilberto Gerra, UNODC. Only a few words from me to introduce my colleague. The rooms in the UN can be impermeable to sound, including the screaming of millions of people in unnecessary pain – people...
View ArticleCND Intersessional, 28 September 2017: Chapter 4 on human rights, women,...
Post-UNGASS Facilitator. We will focus today on human rights, youth, children, women and communities. Credit: Jamie Bridge, IDPC Valerie Lebaux, Chief, Justice Section, UNODC. Given the focus of this...
View ArticleSide event: Edging forward – How the UN’s language on drugs has advanced...
Organised by Mexico, the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC), the Transnational Institute (TNI) and the Global Drug Policy Observatory (GDPO) Ambassador Alicia Buenrostro Massieu (Mexico). It...
View ArticleCND Intersessional, 16 October 2017: Chapter 3 on supply reduction, law...
Amb. Bente Angell-Hansen, CND Chair: I welcome all attending for joining us in this important work, as well as the panellists on this session. I invite the meeting to adopt the provisional agenda. It...
View ArticleCND Intersessional, 17 October 2017: Chapter 5 on evolving reality, trends...
Post-UNGASS Facilitator: I encourage the same level of active participation as we had yesterday, which was a good discussion. Please do ask questions of the panellists. On the panel today, we have the...
View ArticleCND Intersessional, 18 October 2017: Chapter 7 on alternative development,...
Amb. Pedro Moitinho, Post-UNGASS Facilitator: Welcomes panellists. Jorge Ríos, Chief, Sustainable Livelihoods Unit, UNODC: I will discuss our efforts implementing the Action Plan and the UNGASS. When...
View ArticleCND Intersessional 16th November: Chapter VI, Operational Recommendations on...
Chair: Welcomes everyone to the intersessional on international cooperation – including those travelling from outside Vienna as well as civil society representatives. The agenda for today is adopted....
View ArticleCND Intersessional 17th November: The Way Forward – Preparations for the...
Bente Angell-Hansen (Norway), CND Chair: This is the day I’ve been looking the most forward to. The question is how to we carry what we have done forward. It’s also a specially good day because the...
View ArticleRussian Anti-Narcotics Union Side Event
Georgy Mikhno (Acting Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN in Vienna): Welcome to the event organised by the Russian Anti-Narcotics Union. It is a good thing that the Vienna NGO Committee is...
View ArticleCND Intersessional, 21 February 2017
In preparing for the 61st session of the CND, the first intersessional meeting in 2018 was held on February 21st. The new Chair of CND, Alicia Buenrostro Massieu of Mexico, opened the meeting with a...
View ArticleCND intersessional, 25 June 2018
The 2nd Intersessional Meeting of the 61st session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs took place in Vienna on the 25th of June 2018. The meeting started with Chair Alicia Buenrostro Massieu of Mexico...
View ArticleCND intersessional meeting, 27 september 2018: Cross-cutting issues: drugs,...
CHAIR: Good morning to all of you. Welcome back to our third day thematic segment. Today cross cutting issues human rights, youth, children and communities. We will continue with the considerations...
View ArticleCND intersessional meeting, 28 September 2018: Preparations for the...
Chair: Good morning. I have chaired for 9 months now. It is very important that we don’t fight and say one document is more important than the other. Bear in mind that what we are building today needs...
View ArticleCND Intersessional Meeting, 16 January 2019
Source: CND Chair: Good morning, welcome back. Agenda adapted. Composition of the bureau – following of the election of the bureau, there is a pending nomination for second vice chair from Eastern...
View ArticleCND Intersessional Meeting, 7 March 2019
Chair: Welcome. Adopting agenda. As for preparations for HLMS, I would like to remind delegations that the session is from 9:30 on the 14th of March in the plenary hall of the M building. We will...
View ArticleCND Intersessional Meeting, 8 March 2019
Chair: Apologies for the delay. In continuance of yesterday, we agreed to suspend the meeting to consider the 2019 Ministerial Declaration. I will give the floor to facilitator, Ambassador Okeke now....
View ArticleCND Intersessional Meeting, 25 October 2018: Preparations for the ministerial...
Chair – Today is time for the Organizational Segment. This is our 4th day of the 4th intersessional meeting. We listened to interesting presentations and it was an interactive, dynamic session. I thank...
View ArticleCND Intersessional Meeting, 7 November 2018: Implementation of the...
Chair: In memory of Ambassador Christine Stix-Hackl – 1 minute of silence. Thank you. Let’s turn to our agenda points. Proposed dates for the roundtables have been circulated and tomorrow at 9 am we...
View ArticleCND Intersessional Meeting, 8 November 2018: Taking stock of the...
Chair: We focus now on the 2019 target date. (panel) Statistical Committee / Angela Me: Our five targets are, as you know, eliminate or reduce significantly and measurably (1) illicit cultivation of...
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