A/RES/59/163 (j) To provide assistance, at the request of States and respecting fully their sovereignty and territorial integrity, and with the support of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs and the European Space Agency, among others, in detecting on time the emergence or relocation of illicit crop cultivation; Welcomes also the follow-up, led by the United Nations Office on Drugs 6. and Crime, to the 2003 Paris Conference on Drug Routes from Central Asia to Europe (the Paris Pact), 16 and encourages the Office and other relevant international institutions to continue their efforts; 7. Welcomes further the decision of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, at its forty-seventh session, to select the topic “Preventing HIV/AIDS and other blood-borne diseases in the context of drug abuse prevention” as part of the thematic debate of its forty-eighth session, in 2005; Requests the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, subject to the 8. availability of resources and the Commission on Narcotic Drugs guidelines for the use of general-purpose funds, 17 together with international financial institutions and the organizations involved in preventing and suppressing money-laundering and drug trafficking, to facilitate the provision of training and advice through technical cooperation in States, when requested, taking into account, inter alia, the recommendations on money-laundering and the financing of terrorism formulated by the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering and its regional groups; Urges all Governments to provide the fullest possible financial and political 9. support to the United Nations International Drug Control 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, and recommends that a sufficient share of the regular budget of the United Nations be allocated to the Programme to enable it to fulfil its mandates and to work towards securing assured and predictable funding; 10. Encourages the meetings of Heads of National Drug Law Enforcement Agencies and of the Subcommission on Illicit Drug Traffic and Related Matters in the Near and Middle East of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs to continue to contribute to the strengthening of regional and international cooperation, taking into account the outcome of the twentieth special session and the ministerial segment of the forty-sixth session of the Commission; 11. Calls upon the relevant United Nations agencies and entities, other international organizations and international financial institutions, including regional development banks, to mainstream drug control issues into their programmes, and calls upon the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to maintain its leading role by providing relevant information and technical assistance; 12. 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 sixtieth session a report on the implementation of the present resolution. 74th plenary meeting 20 December 2004 _______________ 16 See S/2003/641. Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2001, Supplement No. 8 (E/2001/28/Rev.1), part two, chap. I, resolution 44/20, annex. 18 A/59/188. 17 8

Select target paragraph3

Connect to a paragraph
Connect to an entity
Disable highlights
Add to table of contents