SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS GROUP OF EXPERTS TO REVIEW EFFORTS OF UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM AGAINST ILLICIT DRUGS
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SG/A/674
SOC/NAR/774
SECRETARY-GENERAL APPOINTS GROUP OF EXPERTS TO REVIEW EFFORTS OF UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM AGAINST ILLICIT DRUGS
19980309 Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appointed a group of 13 high-level experts to undertake a comprehensive review of how the efforts against illicit drugs have evolved within the United Nations system since the General Assembly established the United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP) in 1991.The 13 experts are the following:
-- Gustavo Albin Santos, of Mexico; -- Philip O. Emafo, of Nigeria; -- Nobuski Ito, of Japan; -- Hans Lundborg, of Sweden; -- Alvaro Jose da Costa Mendonca e Moura, of Portugal; -- Nozipho Joice Mxakato-Diseko, of South Africa; -- Daniela Rozgonova, of Slovakia; -- Missouri Sherman-Peters, of the Bahamas; -- N.K. Singh, of India; -- Joseph C. Snyder III, of the United States; -- Kalman Szendrei, of Hungary; -- Peter Thompson, of the United Kingdom; and -- Belisario Velazco Baranoa, of Chile.
The main aim of their work will be to recommend how to strengthen future international cooperation against illicit drugs, and to identify measures aimed at reinforcing the Programme's activities in the field of drug control, including increased financial resources.
The group of experts, which will hold its first meeting in Vienna from 22 to 24 April, will be requested to prepare a progress report to be submitted to the special session of the General Assembly on international drug control, which will be held in New York from 8 to 10 June. A final report will be submitted by the experts to the Commission on Narcotic Drugs at its forty- second session, in 1999.
The Secretary-General was requested by the Economic and Social Council to convene the group of experts through resolution 1997/37.
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