China will commemorate the centenary of the first international meeting on drug prohibition in Shanghai, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu announced Thursday.

The government had prepared for the commemoration of the International Opium Commission, the first international anti-drug meeting convened in February 1909 in Shanghai, Jiang told a regular press conference.

The government would invite 16 government delegations and the United Nations office on drug and crime, as well as the representatives from International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), said Jiang.

The event's secretariat would release more details at a later date.

The International Opium Commission led to the signing of the International Opium Convention at Hague in 1912, the first international drug control treaty.

Source:Xinhua