Report of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs on Its 50th Session and Provisional Agenda and Documentation for the 51st Session of the Commission

E/DEC/2007/242View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Decision of the Economic and Social Council, published in 2008.

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What’s in this document?

28 operative paragraphs

At its 44th plenary meeting, on 25 July 2007, the Economic and Social Council took note of the report of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs on its fiftieth session34 and approved the provisional agenda and documentation for the fifty-first session of the Commission as set out below:

Election of officers.

Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters.

Documentation

Provisional agenda and annotations

Normative segment

Thematic debate on the follow-up to the twentieth special session of the General Assembly:

general overview and progress achieved by Governments in meeting the goals and targets for the years 2003 and 2008 set out in the Political Declaration adopted by the Assembly at its twentieth special session.

Documentation

Reports of the Secretariat (as necessary)

Drug demand reduction:

Action Plan for the Implementation of the Declaration on the Guiding Principles of Drug Demand Reduction;

World situation with regard to drug abuse.

Documentation

Report of the Secretariat

Illicit drug traffic and supply:

World situation with regard to drug trafficking and action taken by subsidiary bodies of the Commission;

33 Ibid., Supplement No. 2 (E/2007/22). 34 Ibid., Supplement No. 8 (E/2007/28/Rev.1).

Follow-up to the twentieth special session of the General Assembly:

Measures to promote judicial cooperation (extradition, mutual legal assistance,

controlled delivery, trafficking by sea and law enforcement cooperation,

including training);

Countering money-laundering;

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Action Plan on International Cooperation on the Eradication of Illicit Crops and on Alternative Development.

Documentation

Reports of the Secretariat

Implementation of the international drug control treaties:

Changes in the scope of control of substances;

International Narcotics Control Board;

Follow-up to the twentieth special session of the General Assembly:

Measures to prevent the illicit manufacture, import, export, trafficking,

distribution and diversion of precursors used in the illicit manufacture of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances;

Action Plan against Illicit Manufacture, Trafficking and Abuse of Amphetaminetype Stimulants and Their Precursors;

Other matters arising from the international drug control treaties.

Documentation

Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2007

Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2007 on the Implementation of Article 12 of the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988

Notes by the Secretariat (as necessary)

Operational segment

Policy directives to the drug programme of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

Documentation

Report of the Executive Director

Strengthening the drug programme of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the role of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs as its governing body.

Documentation

Report of the Executive Director

Administrative and budgetary questions.

Documentation

Report of the Executive Director

Preparation for the high-level segment at the fifty-second session of the Commission:

Thematic focus, format and arrangements;

Envisaged outcome.

Provisional agenda for the fifty-second session of the Commission.

Other business.

Documentation

Note by the Secretariat (as necessary)

Adoption of the report of the Commission on its fifty-first session.

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