Report of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs on Its 52nd Session and Provisional Agenda and Documentation for the 53rd Session of the Commission

E/DEC/2009/248View PDF

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A Decision of the Economic and Social Council, published in 2009.

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3 versions · 2000–2009

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2009	E/DEC/2009/248	Report of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs on its 52nd session and provisional agenda and documentation for the 53rd session of the Commission	547	36%Compare
2008	E/DEC/2008/247	Report of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs on its 51st session and provisional agenda and documentation for the 52nd session of the Commission	629	—
2000	E/DEC/1999/264	Report of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs on its 42nd session and provisional agenda and documentation for the 43rd session of the Commission	—	–

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At its 44th plenary meeting, on 30 July 2009, the Economic and Social Council took note of the report of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs on its fifty-second session48 and approved the provisional agenda and documentation for the fifty-third session of the Commission as set out below, on the understanding that intersessional meetings would be held in Vienna, at no additional cost, to finalize the items to be included in the provisional agenda and the documentation requirements for the fifty-third session.

Election of officers.

Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters.

Documentation

Provisional agenda and annotations

Normative segment

Thematic debate [theme to be decided].

Follow-up to the Political Declaration and Plan of Action on International Cooperation towards an Integrated and Balanced Strategy to Counter the World Drug Problem.

Documentation

Reports of the Secretariat (as necessary)

48 Ibid., Supplement Nos. 8 and 8 A (E/2009/28 and Add.1).

Improving the collection, reporting and analysis of data to monitor the implementation of the Political Declaration and Plan of Action on International Cooperation towards an Integrated and Balanced Strategy to Counter the World Drug Problem.

Documentation

Reports of the Secretariat (as necessary)

Drug demand reduction: world situation with regard to drug abuse.

Documentation

Report of the Secretariat

Illicit drug traffic and supply and related measures:

World situation with regard to drug trafficking and recommendations of the subsidiary bodies of the Commission;

Reducing the illicit supply of drugs;

Control of precursors and of amphetamine-type stimulants;

International cooperation on eradicating the illicit cultivation of crops used for the production of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances and on alternative development.

Documentation

Reports of the Secretariat (as necessary)

Countering money-laundering and promoting judicial cooperation to enhance international cooperation:

Countering money-laundering;

Judicial cooperation.

Documentation

Reports of the Secretariat (as necessary)

Implementation of the international drug control treaties:

Changes in the scope of control of substances;

International Narcotics Control Board;

International cooperation to ensure the availability of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances for medical and scientific purposes;

Other matters arising from the international drug control treaties.

Documentation

Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2009

Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2009 on the implementation of article 12 of the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1998

Notes by the Secretariat (as necessary)

Operational segment

Policy directives to the drug programme of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and strengthening the drug programme and the role of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs as its governing body, including administrative, budgetary and strategic management questions:

Work of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and policy directives;

Role of the Commission as the governing body of the drug programme of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime;

Strengthening the drug programme of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime;

Administrative, budgetary and strategic management questions.

Documentation

Report of the Executive Director

Notes by the Secretariat (as necessary)

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

Other business.

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

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