UNGASS 2016: tournant décisif ou occasion manquée?

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UNGASS 2016: tournant décisif ou occasion manquée?

22 avril 2016
Martin Jelsma

Le document final est peut être très décevant, mais le processus de l’UNGASS dans son ensemble a préparé le terrain pour des changements fondamentaux dans les années à venir. Pour en savoir plus, en anglais, veuillez lire les informations ci-dessous.

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At about two o'clock in the morning on March 23rd, after tense negotiations in Vienna, the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) reached a disappointing compromise. The hard-bargained draft of the outcome document of the UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on drugs taking place in New York from 19-21 April was adopted by ‘consensus’. Although its key features are by no means a surprise the draft is disappointing nonetheless.

A statement in the name of some 200 civil society organisations on the opening day of the CND warned that “the UNGASS is now perilously close to representing a serious systemic failure of the UN system … an expensive restatement of previous agreements and conventions”. Will the UNGASS 2016 go down in history as another wasted opportunity or have the debates leading to it laid a solid groundwork for systemic changes in the near future?

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