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Mr President, Mrs Buitenweg, ladies and gentlemen, the Commission welcomes the constant interest shown by the European Parliament in the question of drugs and congratulates Mrs Kathalijne Buitenweg on this report, which attempts to take a pragmatic approach to the questions raised by the relevant United Nations conventions.
As happened at the meeting of the special session of the United Nations General Assembly devoted to drugs in June 1998, Parliament and the Commission will take part in the Community delegation to go to Vienna in April. The Commission is delighted at the presence of four European Parliament representatives at the meeting of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs as well as in the ministerial segment. As you must already know, Parliament, together with the Commission, will make up the delegation from the Community, which has observer status with the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs.
You all know that the Community is not party to the 1961 and 1971 Conventions and is party only to the 1988 Convention but, in this case, with its mandate restricted to the question of chemical precursors. For my part, I should like to reiterate to the House that not just the Commission but the Union as a whole upholds the importance of evaluating the strategies that have been followed in relation to drugs. Last November the Commission carried out an interim evaluation of the European Union’s 2000-2004 drugs action plan, the results of which we intend to present at the Vienna meeting. We are therefore pleased that the United Nations has commenced a similar evaluation process and we hope that the conclusions on the evaluation of the European Union’s action plan and the United Nations’ own conclusions can reinforce each other and provide a clearer clarification of the issues at stake in the implementation of the relevant conventions."@en1
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