The approach is correct. If you think about it, there is a similitude between our campaigns, that is to say that AIDS relates to legalization of drugs in the same fashion that the international Tribunals relate to the death penalty, i.e. AIDS can become the Trojan horse through which antiprohibitionist policies are introduced in the same way the Statutes of the Tribunals introduced the notion of exluding capital punishment as a possible sentence thus creating a juridical precedent at international level and consequently giving abolitionists a political pretext.

In fact, all Anti-AIDS activists and experts are, perhaps at time without even knowing, antiprohibitionists by definition: after more than a decade of HIV and AIDS experience, they all agree that drug control and methadone are better than street heroin, that a clean needle is better that a used one, etc...

This initiative in Kiev is more than timely. Drafting of a UN convention is not an easy task though. For instance, as Nikolay mentions, making an amendment to the WHO's Statute in order to make their reccomendations change into binding obligations for Member states implies a complicated and long-winding procedure. But I am personally very happy if this initiative would start from an eastern country given the skepticism ( or caution) with which our proposal for a Worldwide campaign for AIDS and other Pandemics was received inthe West.

Fil.