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At the twenty-seventh regular session of CICAD in May 2000, delegates from Argentina and Venezuela requested the inclusion of “displacement” as an agenda item for the following regular session.   

In October 2000, during the twenty-eighth regular session, the Commission directed the Executive Secretariat to begin a study, in cooperation with interested governments, on drug-related displacement under the aegis of the Inter-American Observatory on Drugs.

The first CICAD meeting on the subject (February 2001 in Miami, Florida), attended by national coordinators from seventeen member states, considered regional approaches to defining, assessing and cooperating on the displacement phenomenon.  They subsequently  undertook a rapid assessment to evaluate the displacement situation in their countries.  

In a second meeting in May 2001, fourteen member states presented reports on their findings and recommended to the Commission that in-depth, ongoing research and monitoring of the displacement phenomenon should continue.  The topic of displacement also appeared in the official records of the Third Summit of the Americas in Quebec City in April, and the OAS General Assembly in June 2001. 

Last updated Oct/26/01

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