Report of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs on Its 64th Session and Provisional Agenda for Its 65th Session

E/DEC/2021/251View PDF

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A Decision of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 19d Narcotic drugs, published in 2021.

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12 versions · 2011–2026

This is an older version — the most recent is E/DEC/2026/314

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2026	E/DEC/2026/314	Report of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs on its 69th session and provisional agenda for its 70th session	—	—
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2024	E/DEC/2024/321	Report of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs on its 67th session and provisional agenda for its 68th session	380	65%Compare
2023	E/DEC/2023/318	Report of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs on its 66th session and provisional agenda for its 67th session	465	63%Compare
2022	E/DEC/2022/329	Report of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs on its 65th session and provisional agenda for its 66th session	426	66%Compare

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21 operative paragraphs

At its 13th plenary meeting, on 22 July 2021, the Economic and Social Council:

(a) Took note of the report of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs on its sixty-fourth session;60

(b) Also took note of Commission decision 55/1 of 7 December 2012;61

57 E/2021/32 (Part I).

58 ECE Energy Series No. 64 (document ECE/ENERGY/128), United Nations publication, 2020.

59 Ibid., No. 61 (document ECE/ENERGY/125), United Nations publication, 2020.

60 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2021, Supplement No. 8 (E/2021/28).

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

Election of officers.

Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters.

General debate.

Operational segment

Strategic management, budgetary and administrative questions:

Work of the standing open-ended intergovernmental working group on improving the governance and financial situation of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime;

Directives on policy and budgetary issues for the drug programme of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime;

Working methods of the Commission;

Staff composition of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and other related matters.

Normative segment

Implementation of the international drug control treaties:

Changes in the scope of control of substances;

Challenges and future work of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, the World Health Organization and the International Narcotics Control Board in the review of substances for possible scheduling recommendations;

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.

Follow-up to the implementation at the national, regional and international levels of all commitments,

as reflected in the Ministerial Declaration of 2019, to address and counter the world drug problem.

Inter-agency cooperation and coordination of efforts in addressing and countering the world drug problem.

Recommendations of the subsidiary bodies of the Commission.

Contributions by the Commission to the work of the Economic and Social Council, in line with General Assembly resolution 72/305, including follow-up to and review and implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Provisional agenda of the sixty-sixth session of the Commission.

Other business.

Adoption of the report of the Commission on its sixty-fifth session.

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