| Press Release SOC/NAR/825 |
TAHOE TRADING TEAMS UP WITH UNDCP TO SUPPORT 'BASKETBALL WITHOUT BORDERS' CAMP
FOR KIDS FROM FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
| Press Release SOC/NAR/823 |
'BASKETBALL WITHOUT BORDERS': NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION STARS
TO CONDUCT CAMP FOR CHILDREN FROM FORMER YUGOSLAVIA
VIENNA, 26 March (UN Information Service) -- Nine National Basketball Association (NBA) players, led by veterans Vlade Divac of the Sacramento Kings and a native of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Toni Kukoc of the Atlanta Hawks and a native of Croatia, will conduct a basketball camp in Treviso, Italy, from
| Press Release SOC/NAR/822 |
Backgrounder
UN NARCOTICS COMMISSION TO REVIEW WORLD DRUG CONTROL ISSUES
Will Meet in Vienna from 20 to 29 March
(Reissued as received.)
VIENNA, 16 March (UN Information Service) -- Two years after United Nations Member States pledged to achieve substantial reductions in drug abuse and illicit cultivation, the Commission on Narcotic Drugs will conduct its first progress review when it meets here starting Tuesday.
| Press Release SOC/NAR/820 |
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21 February 2001
TREATING SOCIAL PROBLEMS WITH DRUGS BECOMING ACCEPTABLE, WARNS INTERNATIONAL
NARCOTICS CONTROL BOARD IN ANNUAL REPORT
| Press Release SOC/NAR/819 |
UN DRUG REPORT SEES HOPE ON HORIZON
(Delayed in transmission.)
VIENNA, 22 January (UN Information Service) -- The global drug problem -- often characterized as hopeless -- is neither unstoppable nor irreversible, according to the United Nations new World Drug Report.
VIENNA, 24 July (UN Information Service) - With an agreement signed here today the Government of the Netherlands has pledged 10 million Dutch Guilders ($4,318,000) to the Vienna-based United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP).
