Treaty guardians in distress - The inquisitorial nature of the INCB response to Bolivia

Martin Jelsma, July, 2011

Just when you start to see glimmers of hope that the troubled UN drug control system is opening up for a change process, its principal guardian, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), does it again… In a press release on 5 July 2011, the INCB secretariat condemned Bolivia’s decision to denounce the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and re-accede with a reservation on the coca leaf.

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