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ANTI-DRUG EVALUATION MECHANISM TO BE STUDIED AT OAS

  May 5, 2006

The Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (known by its Spanish acronym, CICAD) will celebrate its thirty-ninth regular period of sessions in Washington from May 9-11. The agency is part of the Organization of American States (OAS).

The meeting will include the review, approval and publication of reports on how the member states and the region as a whole are implementing recommendations made during the Third Round of Evaluation 2003-2004 of the Multilateral Evaluation Mechanism (MEM). This instrument uses a number of indicators to evaluate the progress made in the fight against drugs in the 34 CICAD member countries and in the entire hemisphere.

OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza will speak at the opening ceremony, along with the President of CICAD and Bolivia’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Relations, Ambassador Mauricio Dorfler Ocampo, and the Executive Secretary of CICAD, James Mack. The ceremony will be open to the press.

During this period of sessions, participants will also examine recommendations made by the Intergovernmental Working Group to modify the MEM. The reports approved during this CICAD session will be presented to the OAS General Assembly in June, in the Dominican Republic.


WHAT: Opening of the thirty-ninth period of sessions of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD)

WHEN: Tuesday, May 9,
9:00 a.m. (EDT)

PLACE: Padilha Vidal Room
OAS General Secretariat Building
1889 F Street NW
Washington, DC.


Reference: AVI-057/06