 This year China is proposing to bring ketamine under international control but as it is widely used as a medicine, many other governments and the Divert House organizations oppose the international control of ketamine. Mr Chairman, the group notes with regret that the report of the World Health Organization expert committee on drug dependence concluded that international control for ketamine is not really necessary at present. In this regard, the group requests the commission to further and engage the ECDD for its reviewing the conclusion and further considering the necessity and agency of establishing international control of ketamine. Ketamine is as well as being a drug that's used by some people for pleasure. It's also really important anesthetic, particularly in parts of the developing world, the rural parts of the developing world. It's often the only anesthetic available and the only one that's suitable. You don't need laboratories or you don't even need a mains arrangement, no electricity to give it. It's quite safe, doesn't restrict breathing and so on. So it's a really useful anesthetic. There's been a lot of dispute between CND members and parties to the conventions about the legality of scheduling ketamine when WHO, which is mandated under the treaties to advise on whether a substance requires scheduling or not, has now three times recommended that ketamine doesn't require scheduling. It depends on one's interpretation of the treaties. For me and for many NGO colleagues and many country colleagues, it's fairly clear that to do so for CND to schedule when WHO is recommended against would actually be against the conventions. It would be illegal effectively. So if we take or accumulate all existing evidence and what WHO has done, it's quite clear that not only placing ketamine in schedule one and the list will have a really negative public health impact and I will not go into details, I think everybody understands why, but even placing ketamine in another schedule will also limit accessibility and this is already especially in low resource countries and this is already against access to essential drugs and essential medications. This year China is proposing to bring ketamine under international control. What do you think about that? I think that it's not helpful to have drug by drug listed or brought forward for consideration for scheduling without WHO's support and advice and support. So I think it's not helpful at this time to be looking at another drug and just seeking to have it scheduled and included in the conventions. Finally the commission has agreed to postpone the discussion on the international control of ketamine and asked the World Health Organization and other relevant institutions to continue to supply information regarding this issue.