Second session

Vienna, 16-20 March 1998

PREPARATIONS FOR THE TWENTIETH SPECIAL SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO CONSIDER THE FIGHT AGAINST THE ILLICIT PRODUCTION, SALE, DEMAND, TRAFFIC AND DISTRIBUTION OF NARCOTIC DRUGS AND PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES AND RELATED ACTIVITIES AND TO PROPOSE NEW STRATEGIES, METHODS, PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES AND SPECIFIC MEASURES TO STRENGHTHEN INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION IN ADDRESSING THE PROBLEM OF DRUG ABUSE AND ILLICIT TRAFFICKING

Other matters

Proposed arrangements for the accreditation of non-governmental orglanizations to the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, acting as the preparatory body, and to the General Assembly at its twentieth special session

1. The accreditation of non-govenrmental organizations should be granted by a committee composed of the bureau of the preparatory body for the twentieth special session and the secretariat of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP).

2. The Committee should grant accreditation to non-governmental organizations having a serious interest in the subject of the special session and fulfilling any of the following conditions:

(a) they are associated with the United Nations Department of Public Information;

(b) They are included in the UNDCP Directory of Non-Governmental Organizations Working in Drug Demand Reduction, or have submitted the related fact sheet, duly completed, to UNDCP since the directory was published in June 1996;

(c) They have enjoyed a working relationship with UNDCP (that is, by participating in the implementation of a UNDCP-funded project or other activity).

3. All non-governmental organizations that have been accredited to meetings of the preparatory body should be accredited to the twentieth special session without further examination of their credentials. Non-governmental organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council will be invited to the twentieth special session of the General Assembly.