Report of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs on Its 57th Session and Provisional Agenda for Its 58th Session

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A Decision of the Economic and Social Council, published in 2014.

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At its 45th plenary meeting, on 16 July 2014, the Economic and Social Council:

(a) Took note of the report of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs on its fifty-seventh session;29

(b) Recalled Commission decision 55/1 of 7 December 2012;30

Took note of Commission resolution 57/5 of 21 March 2014,31 in paragraphs 6 and 7 of which the (c) Commission decided to present proposals, for consideration by the General Assembly, regarding all organizational matters, including the agenda, dates, substantive issues to be covered, outcomes and other issues relevant to the successful preparations for the special session of the Assembly on the world drug problem, in 2016, and also decided that, in preparation for the special session, the Commission would hold formal meetings following its fiftyseventh session, including two formal meetings immediately preceding its reconvened fifty-seventh session, in December 2014, that it would devote eight meetings during its fifty-eighth session, in March 2015, to the preparations for the special session, and that it would hold intersessional meetings with a view to preparing the formal meetings;

(d) Approved the provisional agenda for the fifty-eighth session of the Commission as set out below:

Election of officers.

Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters.

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 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.

Normative segment

Round-table discussions on 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:

Demand reduction and related measures;

28 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2013, Supplement No. 8A (E/2013/28/Add.1).

29 Ibid., 2014, Supplement No. 8 (E/2014/28).

30 Ibid., 2012, Supplement No. 8A (E/2012/28/Add.1), chap. I, sect. B.

31 Ibid., 2014, Supplement No. 8 (E/2014/28), chap. I sect. C.

Supply reduction and related measures;

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

Implementation of the Political Declaration and Plan of Action on International Cooperation towards an

Integrated and Balanced Strategy to Counter the World Drug Problem: follow-up to the high-level review by

the Commission, in view of the special session of the General Assembly on the world drug problem to be held

in 2016:

Demand reduction and related measures;

Supply reduction and related measures;

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

Implementation of the international drug control treaties:

Challenges and future work of the Commission and the World Health Organization in the review of

substances for possible scheduling recommendations;

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 while preventing their diversion;

Other matters arising from the international drug control treaties.

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

Commission.

Special segment

Preparation for the special session of the General Assembly on the world drug problem, in 2016.32

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

Other business.

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

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