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(b) To strengthen dialogue and cooperation with multilateral development banks and with international
financial institutions so that they may undertake lending and programming activities related to drug control
in interested and affected countries to implement the outcome of the special session, and to keep the
Commission on Narcotic Drugs informed of further progress made in this area;
(c) To take into account the outcome of the special session, to include in its report on illicit traffic in
drugs an updated assessment of worldwide trends in illicit traffic and transit in narcotic drugs and
psychotropic substances, including methods and routes used, and to recommend ways and means of
improving the capacity of States along those routes to deal with all aspects of the drug problem;
(d) To publish the World Drug Report, with comprehensive and balanced information about the world
drug problem, and to seek additional extrabudgetary resources for its publication in all official languages;
4. Urges all Governments to provide the fullest possible financial and political support to the
Programme by widening its donor base and increasing voluntary contributions, in particular general-purpose
contributions, to enable it to continue, expand and strengthen its operational and technical cooperation
activities;
5. Urges the International Narcotics Control Board to increase efforts to implement all its mandates
under international drug control conventions and to continue to cooperate with Governments, including by
offering advice to Member States that request it;
6. Notes that the Board needs sufficient resources to carry out all its mandates, and therefore urges
Member States to commit themselves in a common effort to assigning adequate and sufficient budgetary
resources to the Board, in accordance with Economic and Social Council resolution 1996/20 of 23 July 1996,
and emphasizes the need to maintain its capacity, including through the provision of appropriate means by
the Secretary-General and adequate technical support by the Programme;
7. Stresses the importance of the meetings of Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies,
in all regions of the world, and the Subcommission on Illicit Drug Traffic and Related Matters in the Near
and Middle East of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, and encourages them to continue to contribute to the
strengthening of regional and international cooperation, taking into account the outcome of the special
session;
8. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General,18 and, taking into account the promotion of
integrated reporting, requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-fifth
session a comprehensive report on the implementation of the outcome of the twentieth special session,
including on the Action Plan for the Implementation of the Declaration on the Guiding Principles of Drug
Demand Reduction, and the present resolution.
83rd plenary meeting
17 December 1999
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