Excerpts from document A/61/100 [F] [S] [A] [C] [R]
● Item 99: International drug control.
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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-ninth sessions, the General Assembly considered the item (resolutions 55/65, 56/124, 57/174, 58/141 and 59/163).
At its sixtieth session, the General Assembly encouraged Member States to further develop and institutionalize monitoring and evaluation tools and to utilize existing available data to exchange and share information at all levels; 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 comprehensive measures in the Action Plan against Illicit Manufacture, Trafficking and Abuse of Amphetamine-type Stimulants and Their Precursors; encouraged States to establish or strengthen mechanisms and procedures to ensure strict control of substances used to manufacture illicit drugs, including through coordination and cooperation between regulatory and enforcement services involved in precursor control; called upon all States to strengthen international cooperation among judicial and law enforcement authorities to prevent and combat illicit drug trafficking; urged Member States, consistent with their legal systems, to cooperate with a view to enhancing the effectiveness of law enforcement action in relation to the use of the Internet to combat drug-related crime; 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, security and rule of law, 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 Office on Drugs and Crime by widening its donor base and increasing voluntary contributions; and requested the Secretary-General to submit to it at its sixty-first session a report on the implementation of the resolution (resolution 60/178).
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