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2.
Calls upon all States to take further action to promote effective
cooperation at the international and regional levels in the efforts to counter the world
drug problem, on the basis of the principles of equal rights and mutual respect;
3.
Urges all States to ratify or accede to and implement all the provisions of
the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 as amended by the 1972
Protocol, 13 the Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971 10 and the United
Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic
Substances of l988; 14
II
International cooperation to counter the world drug problem
1.
Urges competent authorities, at the international, regional and national
levels, to implement the outcome of the twentieth special session, within the agreed time
frames, in particular the high-priority practical measures at the international, regional or
national level, as indicated in the Political Declaration and related documents;15
2.
Urges all Member States to implement the Action Plan3 for the
Implementation of the Declaration on the Guiding Principles of Drug Demand
Reduction 4 and to strengthen their national efforts to counter the abuse of illicit
drugs among their population, in particular among children and young people;
3.
Recognizes the role of the United Nations International Drug Control
Programme in developing action-oriented strategies to assist Member States to
implement the Action Plan for the Implementation of the Declaration, and requests
the Executive Director of the Programme to report to the Commission on Narcotic
Drugs at its forty-sixth session on the follow-up to the Action Plan;
4.
Reaffirms its resolve to continue to strengthen the United Nations
machinery for international drug control, in particular the Commission on Narcotic
Drugs, the United Nations International Drug Control Programme and the
International Narcotics Control Board, in order to enable them to fulfil their
mandates, bearing in mind the recommendations contained in Economic and Social
Council resolution 1999/30 of 28 July 1999 and the measures taken and
recommendations adopted by the Commission on Narcotic Drugs at its forty-fourth
and forty-fifth sessions aimed at the enhancement of its functioning, in particular in
its resolutions 44/16 of 29 March 2001 16 and 45/17 of 15 March 2002; 7
5.
Calls upon all States to adopt effective measures, including national laws
and regulations, within the agreed time frame, to strengthen national judicial
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13
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 976, No. 14152.
See Official Records of the United Nations Conference for the Adoption of a Convention against Illicit
Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, Vienna, 25 November–20 December 1988, vol. I
(United Nations publication, Sales No. E.94.XI.5).
15
See resolution S-20/2, annex, as well as the Action Plan for the Implementation of the Declaration on the
Guiding Principles of Drug Demand Reduction (resolution 54/132, annex), the measures to enhance
international cooperation to counter the world drug problem, namely, the Action Plan against Illicit
Manufacture, Trafficking and Abuse of Amphetamine-type Stimulants and Their Precursors (resolution
S-20/4 A), the measures to prevent the illicit manufacture, import, export, trafficking, distribution and
diversion of precursors used in the illicit manufacture of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances (see
resolution S-20/4 B), the measures to promote judicial cooperation (resolution S-20/4 C), the measures to
counter money-laundering (resolution S-20/4 D) and the Action Plan on International Cooperation on the
Eradication of Illicit Drug Crops and on Alternative Development (resolution S-20/4 E).
16
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2001, Supplement No. 8 (E/2001/28/Rev.1),
chap. I, sect. C.
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