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July 23, 2019

President of International Narcotics Control Board calls for urgent assistance to address the drug situation in Afghanistan and the global imbalance in availability of internationally controlled medicines

NEW YORK/VIENNA, 23 July (UN Information Service) - Speaking at the Economic and Social Council, the President of the International Narcotics Control Board has made a call for urgent assistance...[Read more]

July 11, 2019

INCB secretariat offers perspectives on monitoring of international trade in controlled substances at WTO workshop

VIENNA, 4 July 2019 - From 2 to 5 July 2019, the Market Access Division of the Word Trade Organization (WTO) secretariat hosted a workshop on prohibitions, licensing and other quantitative restrictions on international... [Read More]

June 28, 2019

Mission to Kosovo

PRISTINA, 28 June 2019 - From 23 to 27 June 2019, the INCB conducted a mission to Pristina, Kosovo [1] to review the drug control situation there with a view of facilitating access to controlled substances while preventing their diversion....[Read More]

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Cornelis P. de Joncheere, INCB President

Our Mission

The International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) is the independent and quasi-judicial monitoring body for the implementation of the United Nations international drug control conventions. It was established in 1968 in accordance with the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961. It had predecessors under the former drug control treaties as far back as the time of the League of Nations.