At its 43rd plenary meeting, on 27 July 2000, the Economic and Social Council took note of the report of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs on its forty-third session,140 and approved the provisional agenda and documentation for the forty-fourth session of the Commission set out below, on the understanding that informal inter-sessional meetings would be held at Vienna, at no additional cost, to finalize the items to be included in the provisional agenda and the documentation requirements for the forty-fourth session.
Provisional agenda and documentation for the forty-fourth session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs
1. Election of officers.
2. Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters.
Documentation Annotated provisional agenda
3. Thematic debate: building partnership to address the world drug problem.
Documentation Note by the Secretariat [as necessary].
A. Substantive items
Normative segment
Mandates received from the General Assembly
4. Follow-up to the twentieth special session of the General Assembly: examination of the single biennial report of the Executive Director on the 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 Report of the Executive Director on 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 General Assembly at its twentieth special session
Treaty-based and normative functions
5. Drug demand reduction:
(a) Action Plan for the Implementation of the Declaration on the Guiding Principles of Drug Demand Reduction;
Documentation Note by the Secretariat
(b) World situation with regard to drug abuse, in particular among children and youth.
Documentation Note by the Secretariat
6. Illicit drug traffic and supply:
(a) World situation with regard to drug trafficking and reports of subsidiary bodies of the Commission;
Documentation Note by the Secretariat
(b) Follow-up to the twentieth special session of the General Assembly:
(i) Measures to promote judicial cooperation (extradition, mutual legal assistance, controlled delivery, combating trafficking by sea and law enforcement cooperation, including training); (ii) Countering money-laundering; (iii) Action Plan on International Cooperation on the Eradication of Illicit Drug Crops and on Alternative Development.
Documentation Note by the Secretariat [as necessary]
7. Implementation of the international drug control treaties:
(a) Changes in the scope of control of substances;
Documentation Note by the Secretariat [as necessary]
(b) International Narcotics Control Board;
Documentation Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2000 Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2000 on the implementation of article 12 of the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988
(c) International cooperation in order to ensure the availability of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances for medical and scientific purposes;
Documentation Note by the Secretariat [as necessary]
(d) Follow-up to the twentieth special session of the General Assembly:
(i) 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; (ii) Action Plan against Illicit Manufacture, Trafficking and Abuse of Amphetamine-type Stimulants and Their Precursors;
Documentation Note by the Secretariat [as necessary]
(e) Other matters arising from the international drug control treaties.
Documentation Note by the Secretariat [as necessary]
Operational segment
8. Policy directives to the United Nations International Drug Control Programme.
Documentation Report of the Executive Director on activities of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme
9. Strengthening the United Nations machinery for drug control.
Documentation Note by the Secretariat [as necessary]
10. Administrative and budgetary questions.
Documentation Report of the Executive Director
B. Organizational and other matters
11. Duration of the sessions of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs.
Documentation Note by the Secretariat
12. Provisional agenda for the forty-fifth session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs.
13. Other business.
Documentation Note by the Secretariat [as necessary]
14. Adoption of the report of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs on its forty-fourth session.
15. Opening of the forty-fifth session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs.
43rd plenary meeting 27 July 2000
140/ Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2000, Supplement No. 8 (E/2000/28).
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