Speeches

II WORLD MAYORS` CONFERENCE ON DRUGS
and
ECAD 16th Mayors' Conference
GÖTEBORG, SWEDEN
February 5-6, 2009
 


   
 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5

  1. Jörgen Linder, Lord Mayor of the City of Göteborg
     
     "Welcome to Göteborg!"
     
     
  2. Anneli Hultén, Mayor and Chairman of Göteborg City Executive Board
     
     "Building the sustainable drug-free city"     
     
     
  3. Jim Corr, Chairman, ECAD
     
     "Opening the conference..."
     
     
  4. Antonio Maria Costa, UNODC Executive Director
     
     "NOT SENT BY GOD.
    Cities have the drug problems of their choice"     
     
     
  5. Raùl Antonio Gómez Guerrero, Mayor of the city of San Ramón, Costa Rica
     
     "EU-LAC Drug Treatment City Partnerships" (PDF file)
     
     
  6. James F. Mack, Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Drug abuse Control Commission (CICAD)
     
     
     
  7. Cllr. Nondumiso Maphazi, Hon. Executive Mayor, Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality (Port Elizabeth), South Africa
     
     
     
  8. Sven-Olov Carlsson, President, IOGT International, member of the Board of Eurocare and GAPA
     
     "The role of civil society in drug prevention"     
     
     
       
     

MAYORS`FORUM

"Challenges posed by drugs in our cities and
measures to meet them through local and international cooperation"

Mayors` Forum Left to right: Mikhail Korzhik, representative for St.Petersburg, Russia, Desmond McKenzie, Mayor, Kingston, Jamaica, Maj Steen , Mayor, Borås, Sweden, Trude H. Drevland, Deputy Mayor, Bergen, Norway, Marcel Neven, Mayor, Visé, Belgium and Aud Kvalbein, Deputy Mayor, Oslo, Norway, speaking

Mayors` Forum
Left to right: Mikhail Korzhik, Aud Kvalbein, Desmond McKenzie, Trude H. Drevland, and Marcel Neven

 

 

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6


 

  1. Jörgen Svidén, Director, European Cities Against Drugs
    Head Office, Stockholm, Sweden
     
     "Current issues of ECAD work"
     
     
  2. Evgeny A. Bryun, Director, Centre for research and Practice on Addictions,
    Department of Public Health, Government of Moscow, Russia
     
     "Preventive measures on addictions: strategy and methods of work. Experience of the City of Moscow."
     
     
  3. Le Duc Hien , Deputy Director, Department for Social evils prevention,
    Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, Vietnam
     
     "Drug situation in Vietnam and efforts by the government in controlling it" (PDF file)
     
     
  4. Bertha Madras, Prof. of Psychobiology, Dept. of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School,
    former Dep. Director of Demand Reduction, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, USA
     
     "Prevention and intervention: The Response of Cities"
     
     
  5. Angelo Pansini, Advisor to Michele Emiliano, the Hon. Mayor of Bari, Italy
     
     "Criminal organisations` influence on drug situation"
     
     
  6. Jan Eliasson, Ambassador, former Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General for Darfur,
    former Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs
     
     "Global threats - and global strategies"
     
     
  7. Jim Corr, Cllr., Chairman of ECAD
     
     "Conclusions"
     
     


     
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