The second World Mayors’ Conference on Drugs together with the 16th ECAD Mayors’ Conference, is held in Göteborg on February 5-6, 2009. The Conference will focus on the importance of maintaining restrictive and human drug policies both nationally and internationally. The aim of the Conference is to manifest its full support of the UN conventions ahead of the UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs (UNGASS) in March 2009.We would like the Conference to be a forum for exchanging experiences and to make it possible for agreement around the manifest.The year 2009 in Göteborg has special focus on activities against drugs.
Speakers and honoratories
- Antonio Maria Costa - Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Director-General of the United Nations Office in Vienna (UNOV)
- Jim Corr - Chairman of ECAD Advisory Board -
- Jörgen Linder Lord Mayor of Göteborg
- James F Mack-Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) of the Organization of American States (OAS)
- Ms Nondumiso Maphazi - Executive Mayor: Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality; Member of Parliament: South African Parliament, South Africa;
- Ambassador Jan Eliasson - was until July 1, 2008 Special Envoy of the United Nations Secretary-General for Darfur. Previously, Jan Eliasson was President of the 60th session of the United Nations General Assembly 2005-2006. He was Sweden’s Ambassador to the United States, 2000-2005. Mr. Eliasson was Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden in 2006.
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Bertha K. Madras is a professor of psychobiology in the Department of Psychiatry and the chair of the Division of Neurochemistry at Harvard University.
- Sven-Olov Carlsson, förbundsordförande för IOGT-NTO sedan 1995, då valdes han även till internationell president i IOGT-International vid dess kongress i Eastbourne, England. Under åren 1977–1981 var han förbundsordförande i Ungdomens Nykterhetsförbund.
- Le Duc Hien - Le Duc Hien Deputy Director, Department for Social Evils Prevention, Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social affairs , Vietnam.
- Evgeny A Bruyn - Director, Centre for Research and Practice on Addictions, Department of public health, Government of Moscow Russian Federation
