Meetings Coverage and Press Releases

Drugs

SOC/NAR/864

IMPACT OF DRUGS ON CRIME, VIOLENCE AT FAMILY, STREET-LEVELS TO BE FOCUS OF INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL BOARD'S 77th SESSION

27/05/2003
Press Release
SOC/NAR/864


IMPACT OF DRUGS ON CRIME, VIOLENCE AT FAMILY, STREET-LEVELS TO BE

FOCUS OF INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL BOARD'S 77th SESSION


(Reissued as received.)


VIENNA, 26 May (UN Information Service) -- The impact of drugs on crime and violence at the family and street-level will be the focus of attention by the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), which opened its seventy-seventh session today in Vienna.

SOC/NAR/862

UNODC SURVEY SHOWS NO EVIDENCE OF MAJOR SHIFT IN COCA CULTIVATION FROM COLOMBIA TO PERU

15/05/2003
Press Release
SOC/NAR/862


UNODC SURVEY SHOWS NO EVIDENCE OF MAJOR SHIFT

IN COCA CULTIVATION FROM COLOMBIA TO PERU


(Reissued as received.)


VIENNA, 15 May (UN Information Service) -- A new United Nations survey reveals that coca cultivation has remained stable in Peru, dispelling fears of a possible shift in coca growing from neighbouring Colombia, where a considerable decline in cultivation was recently registered.

SOC/NAR/857

DRUG COMMISSION CONTINUES MINISTERIAL-LEVEL MEETING TO REVIEW EFFORTS TO TACKLE GLOBAL DRUG PROBLEM

17/04/2003
Press Release
SOC/NAR/857


DRUG COMMISSION CONTINUES MINISTERIAL-LEVEL MEETING

TO REVIEW EFFORTS TO TACKLE GLOBAL DRUG PROBLEM


(Reissued as received.)


VIENNA, 16 April (UN Information Service) -- Ministers assessed progress achieved and difficulties encountered in meeting the goals and targets set out in the Political Declaration adopted at the 1998 General Assembly special session, particularly with regard to cannabis.