Commission on Narcotic Drugs
- proper noun
- Formal
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Comisión de Estupefacientes
- Stronger regional networks are vital in confronting the threat of illicit drugs, said Yury Fedotov at the opening of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs.
Examples
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The UN's international drug policies may be laid down officially by the 53 Member States of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, but in reality, it is driven by the UNODC's main financial contributors (known as the major donors) and the G8, both of which have a core group of countries in common.
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THE UNITED NATIONS COMMISSION ON NARCOTIC DRUGS (CND)
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This is in part because the formal mechanisms for controlling drug policy have become diluted and blunted as more and more countries have become involved, with 53 of them now sitting on the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs.
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Officially, policy determination comes from the Commission on Narcotic Drugs for the UNODC, but in reality, projects in countries are determined by the major donors since their financing is reliant entirely on voluntary contributions from Member States.
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The fifty-fourth session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs opens in Vienna.
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The Commission on Narcotic Drugs opens in Vienna with a call for stronger networks to confront illicit drugs.
How Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
commission + on + narcotic + drug
The overall meaning is compositionally built from 'commission' (a formal committee) + 'on' (about) + 'narcotic drugs' (drugs that are narcotics), so the phrase denotes a committee concerned with narcotic-drug policy. The institutional naming pattern 'Commission on X' is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words should be able to infer the meaning.
Etymology
Commission on Narcotic Drugs comes from a simple idea: a commission is a group set up to do a job, 'narcotic' is an old word meaning 'makes numb', and drugs are medicines or illegal substances. So this United Nations commission is a group whose job is to 'watch over' and make rules about narcotic drugs around the world.