“Sustainable and resilient recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic that promotes the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development: building an inclusive and effective path for the achievement of the 2030 Agenda in the context of the decade of action and delivery for sustainable development”

This contribution is submitted by H.E. Ms. Dominika Krois (Poland), the Chair of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) at its sixty-fourth session, in response to a letter from the President of the Economic and Social Council of 1 December 2020, inviting the Commission to provide an input to the 2021 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, which will meet under the auspices of ECOSOC at the UN headquarters in New York from 6 to 15 July 2021, on the theme “Sustainable and resilient recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic that promotes the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development: building an inclusive and effective path for the achievement of the 2030 Agenda in the context of the decade of action and delivery for sustainable development”. The input aims to highlight the views and guidance of the CND on the response to the COVID-19 pandemic from the angle of the world drug problem and the various measures and types of international cooperation that can control the pandemic and its impacts and put the world back on track to achieve the SDGs by 2030, within the decade of action and delivery for sustainable development.

The Commission subsequently also submitted the “Statement of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs on the impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic on the implementation of the joint commitments of Member States to address and counter all aspects of the world drug problem”, adopted by consensus, as an additional substantive contribution of the Commission to the 2021 HLPF.

The Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) works on a large portfolio of issues. The ones addressed in this contribution do not reflect the work of the Commission in a comprehensive manner, but represent examples related to the 2021 HLPF theme.