DUSHANBE, December 4, 2014, Asia-Plus -- Lieutenant-General Rustam Nazarzoda, Director of the Drug Control Agency under the President of Tajikistan (DCA), is attending the 57th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) that was reconvened in Vienna on December 3 and will last till December 5, according to the DCA press center.  

According to the European Union website, the High-Level Segment of the CND and the 57th regular session of the CND took place in Vienna from March 13-21, 2014.

The High-Level Segment reportedly adopted the “Joint Ministerial Statement of the 2014 high-level review by the Commission on Narcotic Drugs of the Implementation by Member States of the Political Declaration and Plan of Action on International Cooperation towards and Integrated and Balanced Strategy to Counter the World Drug Problem."

The CND adopted 11 resolutions by consensus related to: education, public health, alternative development, trafficking in the Greater Mekong sub-region, drug abuse prevention through sport, opium poppy seeds for illicit purposes, drug prevention based on scientific evidence, supporting recovery from substance use disorders, UNGASS on the World Drug Problem in 2016, New Psychoactive Substances (NPS), prevention of the diversion of ketamine, the website said.

Established in 1946, the Commission on Narcotic Drugs is one of the functional commissions of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and is the central drug policy-making body within the United Nations system.  The Commission has important functions under the drug control treaties in force today; most notably, it can amend the Schedules of controlled substances under the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and the Convention on Psychotropic Substances.