A/RES/71/211
United Nations
Distr.: General
15 February 2017
General Assembly
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 107
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 19 December 2016
[on the report of the Third Committee (A/71/486)]
71/211. International cooperation to address and counter
the world drug problem
The General Assembly,
Welcoming and reaffirming the outcome document of the thirtieth special
session of the General Assembly, entitled “Our joint commitment to effectively
addressing and countering the world drug problem” 1 in its entirety, reiterating that
the operational recommendations contained therein are integrated, indivisible,
multidisciplinary, mutually reinforcing and aim at a comprehensive, integrated and
balanced approach to addressing and countering the world drug problem,
Reaffirming the Political Declaration and Plan of Action on International
Cooperation towards an Integrated and Balanced Strategy to Counter the World
Drug Problem 2 and the joint ministerial statement of the 2014 high -level review by
the Commission on Narcotic Drugs of the implementation by Member States of the
Political Declaration and Plan of Action, 3 and recalling the resolutions adopted at
the twentieth special session of the General Assembly, 4
Recalling other relevant United Nations resolutions, including General
Assembly resolution 70/182 of 17 December 2015,
Recalling also all resolutions adopted by the Commission on Narcotic Drugs at
its fifty-ninth session, 5
Underscoring that the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 as
amended by the 1972 Protocol, 6 the Convention on Psychotropic Substances of
1971, 7 the United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and
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1
Resolution S-30/1, annex.
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2009, Supplement No. 8 (E/2009/28), chap. I,
sect. C.
3
Ibid., 2014, Supplement No. 8 (E/2014/28), chap. I, sect. C.
4
Resolutions S-20/1, S-20/2, S-20/3 and S-20/4 A–E.
5
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2016, Supplement No. 8 (E/2016/28), chap. I.
6
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 976, No. 14152.
7
Ibid., vol. 1019, No. 14956.
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