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Letter to the UN Secretary General Requesting the suspension to prohibit the traditional chewing of coca leaf
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On March 12, 2009, the President of Bolivia, Evo Morales, sent a letter sent a letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki Moon, requesting the suspension of the paragraphs 1c and 2e of Article 49 of 1961 UN Single Convention that prohibit the traditional chewing of coca leaf.
The Bolivian amendment proposal for the 1961 Single Convention appeared on the ECOSOC agenda for Thursday, July 30, 2009, to be discussed under Agenda item 14 (d), Narcotic drugs, General Segment. See Note of Secretary General (which includes the letter of Morales in English).