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International drug control
Date of
consideration: 7
& 10 October 2005
Third
Committee report (59th
session):
A/59/495
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Document:
A/60/129 [F]
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Letter dated
13 July 2005 from the Permanent representative of Kazakhstan
to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General
A/60/130 [F]
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Report of the
Secretary-General on international cooperation against the
world drug problem
A/60/336
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Letter
dated 6 September 2005 from the Permanent Representative of
the Russian Federation to the United Nations addressed to the
Secretary-General
A/60/403 [F]
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Note
verbale dated 28 September 2005 from the Permanent Mission of
Madagascar to the United Nations addressed to the
Secretary-General
A/60/405 [F]
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Letter
dated 29 September 2005 from the Permanent Representative of
the Republic of Moldova to the United Nations addressed to the
Secretary-General
Summary:
The item
entitled “International campaign against traffic in drugs” was
included in the agenda of the thirty-sixth session of the
General Assembly, in 1981, at the request of Bolivia
(A/36/193). Since its thirty-seventh session, the General
Assembly has regularly continued its consideration of the
item. At its forty-fourth session, the Assembly decided to
change the title of the item to “International action to
combat drug abuse and illicit trafficking” (resolution
44/142). At its forty-sixth and forty-seventh sessions, the
item appeared as “Narcotic drugs” (resolutions 46/101 and
47/98). Since then the title of the item has been
“International drug control”.
In 1998, at
its twentieth special session, devoted to countering the world
drug problem together, the General Assembly adopted the
Political Declaration (resolution S-20/2, annex), the
Declaration on the Guiding Principles of Drug Demand Reduction
(resolution S-20/3, annex) and measures to enhance
international cooperation to counter the world drug problem
(resolutions S-20/4 A to E).
At its
fifty-fourth session, the General Assembly adopted the Action
Plan for the Implementation of the Declaration on the Guiding
Principles of Drug Demand Reduction (resolution 54/132,
annex).
At its
fifty-fifth to fifty-eighth sessions, the General Assembly
considered the item (resolutions 55/65, 56/124,
57/174 and
58/141).
At its
fifty-ninth session, the General Assembly requested the
International Narcotics Control Board, pursuant to Economic
and Social Council resolution 1995/20 of 24 July 1995, to
monitor international trade so that diversion attempts could
be identified, preventing chemical precursors from reaching
the illicit markets; and requested the Secretary-General to
provide the necessary resources to the International Narcotics
Control Board to enable it to continue its work effectively
(resolution
59/162). The Assembly further urged all Member
States to implement the Action Plan for the Implementation of
the Declaration on the Guiding Principles of Drug Demand
Reduction; urged States to renew their efforts to implement
the Action Plan against Illicit Manufacture, Trafficking and
Abuse of Amphetamine-type Stimulants and Their Precursors;
encouraged States to establish or strengthen mechanisms for
ensuring strict control of substances listed in the
international drug treaties and of chemical precursors used to
manufacture illicit drugs; called upon all States to
strengthen international cooperation among judicial and law
enforcement authorities to prevent and combat illicit drug
trafficking; urged States to strengthen action aimed at
preventing and combating the laundering of proceeds derived
from drug trafficking and related criminal activities, with
the support of the United Nations system and relevant
international institutions; called upon States, where
appropriate, to enhance support for alternative development,
environmental protection and eradication programmes undertaken
by countries affected by illicit cultivation; urged all
Governments to provide the fullest possible financial and
political support to the United Nations International Drug
Control Programme by widening its donor base and increasing
voluntary contributions; and requested the Secretary-General
to submit to it at its sixtieth session a report on the
implementation of the resolution (resolution
59/163).
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