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1 Commentary on the Draft Single Convention: Economic and Social Council, Commission on Narcotic Drugs 1 (1952)

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UNITED NATIONS


ECONOMIC

AND

SOCIAL COUNCIL


COMMISSION   ON  NARCOTIC  DRUGS


                   COMMENTARY ON THE DRAFT SINGLE CONVENTION
                                     Note  by the Secretary-General

              The Secretary-General has the honour to submit herewith a commentary on the draft
          text of the Single Convention (E/CN.7/AC.3/3,  United  Nations publication, sales no.:
          1951.XI.13).
              The commentary  is intended to be read in conjunction with the draft text of the
          Convention published in that document, and attention is accordingly drawn to the following
          observations:
              (a)  The numbers given on the extreme left-hand side of pages are the paragraph refer-
                   ence numbers which have been allotted to individual paragraphs and sub-para-
                   graphs of the text of the Convention.
              .(b) The numbers on the extreme right-hand side of pages are the paragraph reference
                   numbers which have been allotted, for ease of reference, to the individual para-
                   graphs and sub-paragraphs of the commentary. They run serially from the be-
                   ginning to the end, and are preceded by the letter C.
              (c) The  commentary is divided into sections, corresponding in every case to sections
                   of the Convention.
              (d)  The following abbreviations are used in the commentary1:


1912 Convention
1925 Convention
1931 Convention


1936 Convention

1925 Agreement

1931 Agreement

1946 Protocol



1948 Protocol




Board


for  International Opium Convention, signed at The Hague, 23.1.1912.
for  International Opium Convention, signed at Geneva, 19.11.1925.
for  International Convention for Limiting the Manufacture  and
     Regulating the Distribution of Narcotic Drugs, signed at Geneva,
     13.VII.1931.
for  The Convention of 1936 for the Suppression of the Illicit Traffic
     in Dangerous Drugs, signed at Geneva, 26.VI.1936.
for  Agreement  concerning the Manufacture of, Internal Trade in,
     and use of Prepared Opium, signed at Geneva, 11.II.1925.
for  Agreement for the Control of Opium-Smoking in the Far East,
     signed at Bangkok on 27.XI.1931.
for  Protocol of 1946 amending  the Agreements, Conventions and
     Protocols on Narcotic Drugs, concluded at The Hague on 23.1.1912;
     at Geneva on  11.11.1925; and 19.11.1925 and 13.VII.1931; at
     Bangkok on 27.XI.1931, and at Geneva on 26.VI.1936.
for  Protocol signed at Paris on 19 November 1948, bringing under
     international control drugs outside the scope of the Convention
     of 13 July 1931 for Limiting the Manufacture and Regulating the
     Distribution of Narcotic Drugs, as amended by  the Protocol
     signed at Lake Success on 11 December 1946.
for  International Drug Board.


   1 In certain cases, however, in the interest of style, these international instruments have been termed :
Convention of 1912, etc.


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E/C N.7/AC.3/4/Rev.  1
           4 June 1952
  Original: English-French

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