UNIS/MA/338
7 March 2024

MEDIA ADVISORY

Journalists invited to cover the 67th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs

VIENNA, 7 March (UN Information Service) – Journalists are invited to cover the 67^th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) to be held from 14-22 March 2024 in Vienna, Austria.

The session will consist of two segments: a high-level segment from 14-15 March and a regular segment from 18-22 March.

The 67^th session will be chaired by Ambassador Philbert Abaka Johnson, Permanent Representative of Ghana to the United Nations in Vienna.

In line with past practice, representatives of the scientific community, youth and civil society will address the Commission during the opening.

Resolutions under consideration by the Commission during the regular segment address the following topics:

• Commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Alternative Development: effective implementation and future perspectives
• Promoting rehabilitation and recovery management programmes (aftercare) as part of comprehensive drug abuse treatment
• Improving the access to and availability of controlled substances for medical purposes, including for the treatment of children in pain, through the promotion of awareness raising, training, and data collection
• Preventing and responding to drug overdose through scientific evidence-based prevention, treatment, harm reduction, and recovery support services in accordance with domestic law and circumstances

The list of draft resolutions can be found here.

The 67^th Session is expected to bring together participants from Member States, UN entities, inter-governmental organizations, civil society, and the scientific community in Vienna and online.

More than 170 side events and over 30 exhibitions will take place during the 67^th session of the CND on various aspects of addressing and countering the world drug problem.

Media can follow the opening of the session online or in person on 14 March 2024 at 9.30 a.m. (CET). Media representatives who do not have yearly accreditation to the Vienna International Centre need to register through this link on INDICO by clicking on media accreditation. More information about the requirements for media accreditation are available here or you can contact the United Nations Information Service (UNIS) by email: press.vienna[at]un.org.

All plenary meetings of the sixty-seventh session will be webcast on United Nations Web TV.

Journalists are also invited to follow side events. The list of side events and their links will be posted on the website of the 67^th CND closer to the start of the session.

Member States will make transcriptions and statements available to journalists at their own discretion.

Join the conversation on Twitter by using the hashtag #CND67 and follow @UNODC, @GhadaFathiWaly, @CND_tweets and @UN_Vienna for updates.

Further information can be found here.

Draft Agenda of the 67^th Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs is available here.

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For further information please contact:

Email: UNODC-Press[at]un.org

or

Christine Dierk
Associate Public Information Officer, UNIS Vienna
Telephone: (+43-1) 26060-4949
Mobile: (+43-699) 1459-4040
Email: dierk[at]un.org