Commission on Narcotic Drugs

Forty-third session

Vienna, 6-15 March 2000

Provisional timetable

Monday, 6 March

Plenary

Item 1. Election of officers

Item 2. Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters

Item 3. Follow-up to the twentieth special session of the General Assembly

Tuesday, 7 March

Plenary

Item 3. Follow-up to the twentieth special session of the General Assembly (continued)

Committee of the Whole

Item 4(a) Reduction of illicit demand for drugs: Action Plan for the Implementation of the Declaration on the Guiding Principles of Drug Demand Reduction

Wednesday, 8 March

Plenary

Item 6(a) Implementation of the international drug control treaties: changes in the scope of control of substances

Committee of the Whole

Item 4 (b) Reduction of illicit demand for drugs: world situation with regard to drug abuse

Item 5 (a) Illicit drug traffic and supply: world situation with regard to drug trafficking and reports of subsidiary bodies of the Commission

Item 5(b) Illicit drug traffic and supply: follow-up to the twentieth special session

Thursday, 9 March

Plenary

Item 6 (b) Implementation of the international drug control treaties: International Narcotics Control Board

Item 6 c Implementation of the international drug control treaties: international cooperation in order to ensure the availability of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances for medical and scientific purposes

Item 6 (d) Implementation of the international drug control treaties: follow-up to the twentieth special session of the General Assembly

Item 6(e) Implementation of the international drug control treaties: other matters arising from the international drug control treaties

Item 4 (a) Reduction of illicit demand for drugs: Action Plan for the Implementation of the Declaration on the Guiding Principles of Drug Demand Reduction

Committee of the Whole

Consideration of draft resolutions

Friday, 10 March

Plenary

Item 4 (a)

Item 4 (b) Reduction of illicit demand for drugs: world situation with regard to drug abuse

Item 5 (a) Illicit drug traffic and supply: world situation with regard to drug trafficking and reports of subsidiary bodies of the Commission

Item 5 (b) Illicit drug traffic and supply: follow-up to the twentieth special session

Committee of the Whole

Consideration of draft resolutions (continued)

Monday, 13 March

Plenary

Item 7. Policy directives to the United Nations International Drug Control Programme

Tuesday, 14 March

Plenary

Item 8. Strengthening the United Nations machinery for drug control

Item 9. Administrative and budgetary questions

Item 10. Consideration of (a) the timing and theme of any ministerial-level segment to be convened by the Commission and (b) the modalities for the inclusion of the item entitled "General debate" and the themes to be addressed by the Commission at future sessions

Wednesday, 15 March

Plenary

Item 10. (continued)

Adoption of draft resolutions and decisions

Item 11. Provisional agenda for the forty-forth session

Item 12. Other business

Item 13. Adoption of the report